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Motorola has revealed that it found evidence of child labour at two of its suppliers last year.
The US multinational, which makes mainly mobile phones, found three workers under 16 at two sites in the Asia Pacific region. The suppliers were required to remove the underage employees and to help pay for their education.
Motorola also found 22 instances in the same region of employees aged 16 and 17 working with potentially hazardous equipment or chemicals, in contravention of its guidelines. All suppliers involved were made to change their practices by moving such workers to other tasks.
The infringements were uncovered during 20 full on-site inspections by independent auditors in 2006, using the guidelines of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, a partnership of communications technology companies supported by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Motorola, which had sales of $42.8billion (£21.5bn) in 2006, aims to carry out 75 such audits this year.
The US multinational, which makes mainly mobile phones, found three workers under 16 at two sites in the Asia Pacific region. The suppliers were required to remove the underage employees and to help pay for their education.
Motorola also found 22 instances in the same region of employees aged 16 and 17 working with potentially hazardous equipment or chemicals, in contravention of its guidelines. All suppliers involved were made to change their practices by moving such workers to other tasks.
The infringements were uncovered during 20 full on-site inspections by independent auditors in 2006, using the guidelines of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, a partnership of communications technology companies supported by the United Nations Environment Programme.
Motorola, which had sales of $42.8billion (£21.5bn) in 2006, aims to carry out 75 such audits this year.
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