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After several days of investigation, Auret Van Heerden, the chief executive of the FLA, who began investigating Foxconn in February 13th, was surprised by the fact that he had first discovered that he had found "a lot of problems" in the Foxconn factory area of Shenzhen, and then commended Foxconn, calling Foxconn "first-class facilities", and "Foxconn is really not a sweatshop".

Van Heerden's remarks were immediately criticized by several other labor rights organizations, and doubts about the independence of FLA were also aroused.

FLA, "number two" and Lopez, executive director of the organization, said in a mail to reporters that the pparency of the FLA investigation process was "right" for herself. All the results of the audit and investigation could be publicly obtained without any cover up. "Jorge" Perez-Lopez

But he did not mention more details and phased findings of Foxconn's investigation.

The progress of the survey did not have a significant impact on the stock price of Apple Corp.

On the 17 day, Apple Corp shares fell by 0.02% to $502.12 per share.

Apple Corp shares have risen 24% this year to become the most valuable companies in the world.

"A lot of questions"

"We found a lot of problems."

After several days of investigation, Van Heerden commented, "I believe we will see some very important statements in the near future."

On the 18 day, the FLA investigation team has submitted preliminary findings to Foxconn management as planned.

Van Heerden said that the FLA's 30 person investigation team will randomly select workers who can reflect the characteristics of workers' age, sex and technology level in the factory, and will eventually ask 35 thousand Foxconn employees.

As part of the investigation process, workers will submit the answers to FLA related servers for tabulation.

Deva Heerden declined to reveal more details of the investigation.

FLA plans to announce more findings in the next few weeks.

At that time, Foxconn will have the opportunity to defend itself or agree to take measures to prevent further irregularities.

Foxconn said in an email statement on the morning of 18, Foxconn fully cooperate with the investigation, and will check, in accordance with the findings and handling opinions.

Foxconn said the FLA investigation was a very professional and thorough examination.

Apple Corp spokesman Kuby Tino (Steve Dowling) quoted the 13 day Apple Corp's statement as a response to the investigation. (Dowling)

"First class" Foxconn

On the other hand, "there are a lot of problems", on the other hand, Foxconn factory area is "first-class".

Van Heerden, in an interview with Reuters on the 15 day, clearly expressed his praise of Foxconn.

Reuters quoted Van Heerden as saying that Foxconn's hardware is much better than China's.

According to the national public broadcasting (NRP) report, van Hill said: "the workers are very candid and completely uncoerced."

He said the FLA30 people's investigation team will be in 3 factories in Foxconn.

Heather White, another founder of Verite, a labor rights watchdog, has raised many suspected violations that are hard to detect and are hard to detect. Heather White,

For example, she said she was forced to work overtime or use certain toxic chemicals.

"These are not found in a hosted tour that is planned ahead of schedule."

She said.

In fact, Van Heerden had already had interaction with Foxconn.

In order to test whether FLA's investigative technology can eradicate factory problems more effectively, Apple has been used in the past two years.

Question continues

For Van Heerden's remarks, a number of articles have been published before, which prompted the public press in the US against Foxconn's "sweatshop" wave. Van Heerden did not take the lead in Foxconn's "N jump" incident, the polishing workshop explosion, and the workers' grudge for more than 70 hours per week.

And Foxconn's bad working environment is the theme of last month's New York Times that stirred up a lot of labor rights organizations.

The report describes the low wages, long working hours and poor housing conditions of Foxconn factories, which caused workers to commit suicide and heavy casualties.

The report also said that in order to work overtime, the factory captain would wake up 8000 workers in the middle of the night, and only one packet of biscuits and a cup of tea each would start working overtime.

Van Heerden's latest interpretation of the preliminary findings is obviously different from the above reports.

"Our work in Foxconn is not the first impression, or check whether there are paint operations in some places."

Lopez said, "the evidence will be found in the process of investigation.

After the report came out, we made it public.

A number of ILO officials said they were surprised and stunned by Van Heerden's remarks.

"In general, in a survey of labour rights, the findings should come out after the collection of evidence is complete, rather than in other ways."

Scott nova, executive director of the Workers Rights Consortium, said: "this survey is obviously a tour guided tour provided by the factory."

He added: "if FLA wants to convince people that it can still conduct a fair investigation in the case of Apple Corp funding, this is not a good start."

White called Van Heerden's comments very hasty.

"He made any comment before the workers were not investigated in secret places outside the factory, at least immature."

She said, "he does not speak Chinese, he is not a well-trained auditor qualified to make any quick assessments."

White believes that if Foxconn is allowed to investigate, it may not be able to draw the true result.

She said that there might be more realistic results when talking at other places such as workers' home or leaving the factory area.

"On some sensitive issues, it is very difficult for workers to tell the truth in public."

She said.