Should Apple Workers Be Required To Work?

Apple is a household name, but what most people might not know is how Apple treats their employees. The factories that Apple uses do not pay the employees for the over time they are forced to work, the companies say that the worked over time is voluntary (Bilton). Foxconn which is one of the companies that Apples uses is not a great company. This is said on Foxconn’s working conditions “Time off is usually only used for rest as people regularly work shifts of 11 to 13 hours. Working hours are so long that people sleep in the factories when a new product is being released.” (facing-finance.org) If that is not enough when the quota is not met, “lunch breaks are also cancelled. Days off are rare and trips home to visit family are only allowed …show more content…
Working the hours their employees have to work is not fair to them. When employees are falling asleep, and killing themselves on the job is unacceptable. No factory job is worth losing life or limb over. Most of the people that work in these factories are young adults that cannot find work in their home regions. This leaves the young adults in a terrible position, work in these horrible position or not work. These people who are in this position are willing to work in an environment that is not the best for their health. They also might be willing to look the other way when the company does something that is not correct. A person might look the other way when they see toxic chemicals being tossed into a water supply or in an empty field. They also might not complain when they have to work long hours week after week, because they feel like they could lose their job, for not going along with their …show more content…
I do not think people that do not have a college education should be compensated like someone who does have a college degree. People should be paid a fair wage, which they can live on. If a person is working with toxic chemicals, or has a special skill, they should be compensated fairly for it. When companies have to increase the pay of the employees, the price of the good or service they sell is going to have to go up. When that happens the consumer cannot buy as much, which is when companies have to fire people. None of that is good for the overall economy.
Apple should place stricter regulations on who they buy their components from, and make sure they the regulations are enforced. When Apple makes the regulations stricter, the cost of enforcing the regulations is going to up. The companies are going to pass that cost on to Apple, then Apple is going to pass it on to the consumers. Technology is already expensive when it is first released, stricter regulations is just going to make it even more expensive. Then there is not guarantee that the companies are not going to pocket the money and then still not follow the