Foxconn Says Underage Workers Used In China Plant

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Wed, 10/17/2012 - 5:05am

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract electronics maker, has acknowledged hiring teenagers as young as 14 in a Chinese factory, in breach of national law, in a case that raises further questions over its student intern program.

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