"Nintendo was concerned to learn that underage individuals had been working at a Foxconn facility in China where components for some Nintendo products are produced. Nintendo investigated the incident and determined that this was a violation of the Nintendo Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Procurement Guidelines that all Nintendo production partners are required to follow, based on relevant laws, international standards and guidelines.
Foxconn has taken full responsibility for this incident and has moved quickly to ensure that all affected individuals no longer work at Foxconn. In fact, Foxconn’s own policies prohibit the employment of underage individuals and the company has pledged to Nintendo via direct communications to improve its process of enforcing this policy to avoid any similar issues in the future.
As one of many companies that work with Foxconn to enhance CSR along the whole supply chain, we take this issue very seriously. As part of our ongoing procurement process, Nintendo staff will continue to carry out on-site inspections of our production partners in order to understand the actual on-site conditions and to promote socially responsible procurement.
For more information about Nintendo’s Corporate Social Responsibility report, please visit http://www.nintendo.co.jp/csr/en/index.html."
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So basically...
a slap on the wrist?
Business. Who knew?
@Autosaver
What do you want them to do? Stop production of their product? Nintendo is not the law therefore they can not do any to them other than stop using them and that isn't going to happen. They are probably going to receive a fine from there law enforcement though.
Doesn't sound to me like much was solved. Children that needed to work to support their families maybe? just got fired and now have to work at possibly a much worse place.
Unless I'm missing something?
I guess it can't be helped when all us higher up the world people just can't bare to stand how Nintendo went out and kidnapped children to make their wii u's for them.
But then again, what do I know about the whole situation.
Not enough, clearly. Granted, when most people hear "children" they probably think around 10-12 years old, and these were 14-16 years old, but it doesn't change the fact that they were hired as interns - working inhumane hours and not getting paid for any of it.
Unfortunately, Nintendo has little to no power here, and the most they can realistically do is state how much they disagree with what Foxconn has done. They're in the position of not being able to leave Foxconn for another company, but as GeneralDisorder said, this is business, so that likely wouldn't happen anyway.
Yeah, I guess that's all that could have been done really :/
Just felt like typing what I did for some reason.
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