Nintendo responds to Foxconn’s child employment admission
Nintendo has issued a statement regarding the situation surrounding Foxconn’s employment of children.
The electronics maker admitted yesterday that it “had found some interns at a plant in Yantai, in northeastern Shandong province”, who “were under the legal working age of 16.”
Here’s the statement in full:
“Nintendo is in communication with Foxconn and is investigating the matter. We take our responsibilities as a global company very seriously and are committed to an ethical policy on sourcing, manufacture and labor. In order to ensure the continued fulfillment of our social responsibility throughout our supply chain, we established the Nintendo CSR Procurement Guidelines in July 2008. We require that all production partners, including Foxconn, comply with these Guidelines, which are based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines. If we were to find that any of our production partners did not meet our guidelines, we would require them to modify their practices according to Nintendo’s policy. For more information about Nintendo’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, please visit http://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/index.html.”
