An undercover report on conditions on an iPhone 6 production line by the BBC has prompted a probe into Apple Inc, Shanghai Daily reports.

The report stated that Apple ‘failed to protect workers’ and that they were physically exhausted from overwork. The plant is run by Taiwan-based Pegatron Corp and is a large supplier for Apple.

The BBC report claims that one factory worker was forced to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for time off, among other allegations of cramped living spaces, illegal confiscation of ID cards, and forced unpaid overtime.

Representatives from Pudong’s labour authority visited the factory yesterday to further investigate the claims, with a promise to conduct a full scale investigation.

This isn’t the first time Apple has been in hot water over employee conditions; the firm came under fire in 2010 over the Foxconn suicide scandal when 14 factory employees working on Apple production lines commited suicide, and again just last year when 4 factory workers, including a 15 year old boy, died at the plant.

Pegatron Corp has denied the allegations, but announced on Monday that it would fully investigate any supposed infractions on employees wellbeing.

Source: Shanghai Daily

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