Apple Suppliers Reach 95% Compliance With 60-Hour Work Week, Tracking Expanded

Apple has announced that its monitored suppliers have reached 95% compliance with the 60-hour work week specified in their Supplier Responsibility Code of Conduct.

In our effort to end the industry practice of excessive overtime, we're working closely with our suppliers to manage employee working hours. In January and February 2012, we collected weekly data on more than 500,000 workers employed by our suppliers. February results showed a continued upward trend from January, with 89 percent compliance to the 60-hour work week specified in our code. The data collected in March 2012 for this same set of suppliers demonstrated substantial improvement again, with compliance increasing to 95 percent.

The company also announced its expanding the program from 500,000 workers to 800,000 workers.


Encouraged by the success of this program to date, we expanded our weekly tracking to even more facilities deeper in the supply chain, and we are now monitoring compliance for over 800,000 workers. For this broader set of suppliers, we saw 91 percent compliance in March. We will continue to share our progress with this expanded group of suppliers in the coming months.

Notably, recent reports have suggested that reduced hours isn't something employees want.

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