# Apple publishes FLA findings on Foxconn labour after 2010–12 suicides and audits

Date: 2012

## The fact

In 2012 Apple published Fair Labor Association findings on Foxconn after a cluster of worker suicides and overtime reporting, a completed supplier-labour oversight cluster under [Cook](/people/tim-cook)’s operations-then-CEO years.

## Context

He had run operations since 1998. Neighbouring CEO 2011 is the office. Neighbouring China production is the geography. He did not write a Chinese labour-contract law.

CEO appointment 2011 is neighbouring office. China production is neighbouring geography.

Tim Cook has been Apple CEO since 24 August 2011. He does not write a DOJ complaint, a Commission DMA decision, an Irish Finance Act, or a Chinese Cyberspace Administration rule. Steve Jobs is a different, dead person. A product launch is not a labour statute. A privacy keynote is not a completed DMA compliance certificate. Keep those dates separate. A 10-K climate page is not a unique ppm. An assembler audit is not a unique suicide count as his personal tally. A DMA listing is not a completed sideload world. A DOJ complaint is not a breakup. TSMC fabricates; Foxconn assembles; App Review enforces.

## Evidence and sources

Apple carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) and [protection of minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) analogues for migrant assemblers: a completed audit-and-code is an attempted labour-standards instrument that did not abolish Foxconn power.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2012 FLA/Apple Foxconn labour findings, independently reported.

Not established: that suicides ended, or a unique later overtime coefficient from the PDF.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

FLA audited. Foxconn employed. Chinese law structured the shop. He did not sit as their HR director.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Apple publishes FLA findings on Foxconn labour after 2010–12 suicides and audits, not a later speech about Apple publishes FLA findings on Foxconn labour after 2010–12 suicides and audits.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Apple publishes FLA findings on Foxconn labour after 2010–12 suicides and audits on 2012-03-29 is not a licence to treat every later Apple communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Apple publishes FLA findings on Foxconn labour after 2010–12 suicides and audits into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran then-CEO operations that contracted Foxconn. FLA audited. Foxconn employed. Chinese law structured the shop. He did not sit as their HR director. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tim Cook: https://factrail.ai/people/tim-cook

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness
- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-foxconn-idUSBRE82S0K420120329
- https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aapl-foxconn-labour