Samsung denies 8216;slave labour8217; practices at supplier plants in China

But in a statement today,Samsung said it maintained a 8216;zero tolerance8217; policy on child labour and had audited all its supplier sites in China following the China Labor Watch report,News.com.au reports.

The firm said that it is implementing new hiring policies to strengthen identity verification measures,despite no instance of child labour being identified in the audits.8217;

The China Labor Watch report has claimed that employees at Samsung supplier plants in China worked up to five times the legal overtime limit and were denied basic labour rights.

At the time,the South Korean company rejected charges of 8220;inhumane8221; working conditions as 8220;totally unfair8221;.

But later it acknowledged their audits had uncovered some 8216;inadequate practices8217;.