The US tech giant Apple in its annual “Supplier Responsibility” report has admitted that child labour was used in 11 facilities across its supple chain in 2012, according to a Financial Times report.  
 
The company said that it found 106 “active cases” of children used by its suppliers  in  2012. By the time of company’s audit 70 people who had been underage and either left or passed the age of 16 by the time of its audit.
 
After Apple took note of that and detected fake identification documents with its partners, none of them were found working in these facilities.  
 
Apple said that that 74 of those 106 under-16s were employed by a single Chinese manufacturer of circuit-board components used in Apple products.

It said that a large local labour agency “knowingly” supplied the children.
 
“Our approach to underage labour is clear: We don’t tolerate it, and we’re working to eradicate it from our industry” when we discover suppliers with underage workers or find out about historical cases. we demand immediate corrective action Apple wrote in its report.

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