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Apple’s approach to it’s suppliers’ responsibility

Workers in Apple’s supply chain are also significant considerations in the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts. These workers are indirect stakeholders in Apple’s business, but determine the firm’s corporate social responsibilities. The main interest of this stakeholder group is similar to the interests of Apple’s own employees, such as proper compensation and job security. Also, this stakeholder group is interested in ethical employment practices. To address these interests, Apple has a Supplier Code of Conduct. The company monitors and imposes requirements on the employment practices of firms in its supply chain. Part of Apple’s policy is to terminate business relations with suppliers that continue to fail or refuse to satisfy this Code of Conduct.

Apple’s 2014 assessment of suppliers shows that 92% of suppliers now comply with the 60-hour workweek rule. Thus, to a certain high degree, Apple’s corporate social responsibility efforts satisfy the interests of the stakeholder group of suppliers’ workers.

Categories of CSR activities | Apple performance |

Creating an educated workforce and empowering workers | Apple’s Supplier Education and Development program (SEED) is offered free of charge by 23 sites and more than 861,000 workers. This program helps assist workers in their professional and personal development Trough several classes in technical, software, management, and other skills. |

Labor and human rights | Apple enforces The Supplier Code of Conduct that is claimed to be the toughest in the electronics industryCompany has achieved an average 92% compliance among suppliers to maximum 60-hour workweekApple has investigated cases of abuses of foreign workers and the company has required suppliers to reimburse affected “foreign contract workers US$3.9 million in excessive fees paid to labor brokers. |

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