According to the chinese voice of the nation news channel, jiangsu's “commonly known case of child labour” has recently attracted public attention, and journalists know that four child labourers are from guizhou and work 15 hours a day; the head of the garment factory suspected of illegally using a worker, feng yi, and the employee wang chi, have been arrestedCriminal detentionI don't know. The police are currently conducting further investigations into the evidence。
Journalists have learned from the police that the suspect involved in the illegal use of labour is feng chiu, a resident of ling yi county, anhui province, who is the director of a garment processing factory in the city, and wang chiu, an employee of an shun city, guizhou province。
The police found that at the end of february of this year, feng went to the village of wang ansheng city, guizhou province, where he hired four working children, including le chi, wei, yang, liu, and liu, to work in his garment processing plant, through the introduction of one of wang's older employees. The suspect wang said: “the parents of several children come with their children, saying that they have dropped out of school for a year or two and that they can't manage at home and are going to work.”
Both feng and wang yi indicated that no account had been taken of the serious consequences of child labour。
It is understood that these child labourers work about 15 hours a day and that at present, police officers who are familiar with the law have imposed criminal detention on feng and wang. As a next step, the police will continue to investigate and verify the age of the four minors, the method of representation of intermediaries, etc., and to cooperate with the authorities, such as the human welfare institute, in the fight against child labour offences。
According to chen liangcheng, a civilian police officer at the police station of zhenghu, a well-known city police station, “the problem of the chain of trade has not been detected for the time being, based on the evidence obtained from the current investigation. According to the statements of these persons, it was the parents of the children who took the children and offered to work with the boss. With regard to the yunnan children involved in the video, we have not yet found them, and the case is still pending.”
It is known that since 2012, 107 cases of child labour have been investigated, involving 211 child workers, and fines of more than 3 million yuan have been imposed on the establishments concerned. In response to the situation of illegal child labour in the garment workshop, the officials concerned indicated that they would further strengthen regulatory enforcement to prevent the recurrence of such incidents。
