Microsoft has promised to dispatch an investigative team to a Chinese factory allegedly engaged in workplace violations, with a full audit to be conducted the week of April 19. However, the National Labor Committee report that sparked Microsofts action also documents how the KYE factory in Dongguan has a supposed history, according to its sources, of covering up violations such as the use of underage workers ahead of both government and corporate audits. That report also alleges that workers are coached on what to say to auditors before their arrival. Microsoft insists it has been monitoring workplace conditions at the factory on a regular basis.
– Microsoft announced plans April 15 to investigate allegations of labor
violations at a Chinese factory building its products, in response to an April
13 report by the National Labor Committee. However, that same report suggests
the factorys management has a system for disguising potential violat…