Sacom

SACOM found that in some case, the percentage of student workers amounts to 35-50% of the labour force. In June 2010, around 100,000 students from Henan province were deployed at the two of Foxconn's production facilities in Shenzhen. Government regulations stipulate that when placing students as interns at companies their work should be in line with the school's curriculum and learning targets, and that working hours should not exceed 8 hours a day. The SACOM report describes how student interns at Foxconn are de facto deployed as ordinary production line workers. None of them can be exempted from overtime work. Moreover, placement is not voluntary - students are placed by their schools.