{"id":38729,"date":"2009-05-12T20:23:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=38729"},"modified":"2009-05-12T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:23:22","slug":"child-labor-alleged-at-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Labor Alleged at Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/underageworkers-05112009162537.html\">investigation by RFA<\/a> found that underage Uighur workers are being employed by the Taiwanese-owned Longfa Shoe Factory, which supplies shoes for Nike:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile the legal working age in China is 16, Nike\u2019s code of conduct states that its contractors do not \u201cemploy any person below the age of 18 to produce footwear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spokesmen for Nike and for Longfa Shoe Factory denied the allegation and said hiring underage workers would violate company policies.<\/p>\n<p>But some workers at the factory say they were sent to work at age 15 or 16. They were supplied with fake identification papers showing earlier birthdates, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Sawut and Abide, Uyghurs originally from China\u2019s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), said that most of the girls were brought to Longfa at age 16 or 17 in three separate groups during March, April, and September of 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by RFA found that underage Uighur workers are being employed by the Taiwanese-owned Longfa Shoe Factory, which supplies shoes for Nike: While the legal working age in China is 16, Nike\u2019s code of conduct states that its contractors do not \u201cemploy any person below the age of 18 to produce footwear.\u201d Spokesmen for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,2,34,5],"tags":[1042,5955,148,233],"class_list":["post-38729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-economy","category-human-rights","category-society","tag-child-labor","tag-guangdong","tag-labor-rights","tag-nike","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Child Labor Alleged at Factory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Child Labor Alleged at Factory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An investigation by RFA found that underage Uighur workers are being employed by the Taiwanese-owned Longfa Shoe Factory, which supplies shoes for Nike: While the legal working age in China is 16, Nike\u2019s code of conduct states that its contractors do not \u201cemploy any person below the age of 18 to produce footwear.\u201d Spokesmen for [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"China Digital Times (CDT)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChinaDigitalTimes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-13T03:23:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2009-05-13T03:23:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/CDT-logo.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"186\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"177\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cdt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sophie Beach\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sophie Beach\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#\/schema\/person\/7f19e31b674d57a7dc20aab8e908c663\"},\"headline\":\"Child Labor Alleged at Factory\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-05-13T03:23:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-13T03:23:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/child-labor-alleged-at-factory\/\"},\"wordCount\":141,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"child labor\",\"Guangdong\",\"labor rights\",\"nike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"China &amp; 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