given two years to eliminate the illegal use of overtime and penalties for employees, and warned against child labor

found illegal work practices in an audit of 105 of their Chinese suppliers - but gave the companies two years to eliminate it. Verification of 65,000 employees following accusations of China Labor Watch, a working group of independent rights based in New York, alleging that Samsung providers recruited and used children "inhumane" conditions in August and September that n ' there was no unlawful discrimination in the hiring policies of some vendors of Samsung.

Samsung said it found no evidence of child labor, after conducting face to face, controls the entire staff of less than 18. The South Korean firm - the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones, and one of the largest suppliers of memory chips and touch screens - said he had found cases of Chinese employees working overtime after hours and fined by the absence or legal

The admission followed a four-week audit of suppliers, even if the company did not say how many had been a violation of the conditions, saying only that it was "more." Audits continue at more than 144 suppliers in China.

The revelation followed an increasing focus on recruitment practices and working in China for electronics companies like Apple, Microsoft, Motorola and Samsung now.

Apple has been criticized in the past two years from suicide and injury reports on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that owns and operates a large number of factories that manufacture Apple products in China.

China Labor Watch said that Samsung is guilty of poor hiring practices and work.

Recognizing problems in suppliers, Samsung said: "We identified the need for initiatives to reduce employee overtime as a priority, and we are the research and development measures to eliminate hours beyond legal limits in late 2014. "He said that the development of a long-term plan to" solve "the problem of hours later this year. In August, China Labor Watch said three surveys conducted during June and July and found the child labor and the exploitation of students HEG supplier Samsung Electronics (Shenzhen), who worked on mobile phones, DVD players, stereos and MP3 players. In the first case argued that seven children under 16 working in the research department, suggesting that said child labor was "a common practice in the factory." It would also break the Chinese employment laws. "Our research indicates that students' work is equal to 80% of the workforce in the factory," said China Labor Watch, arguing that there were between 50 and 100 children, the youngest is 14, at the factory, and paid only 70% of adult wages. "In addition, these working children are often forced to perform dangerous tasks that resulted in injuries."

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