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In 15 facilities, Apple found foreign contract workers who had paid excessive recruitment fees to labor agencies.
"Our study found that the main driver predicting whether someone would be in forced labour hinged on whether they had excessive recruitment debt," says Wisniewski Otero.
Singapore's ministry of manpower told the Guardian it had taken a "firm stance against excessive recruitment fees", with heavy penalties for offenders.
Apple's review also found that at eight facilities, foreign workers paid excessive recruitment fees to hiring agencies in order to get jobs.
Apple has previously cracked down on excessive recruitment fees that foreign contract workers pay to labour brokers.
(While monthly average household earnings are nearly $20,000, Qatar relies on migrant workers whose employment amounts to indentured labor, and in which they may be held eternally captive. They earn on average $300 per month, at jobs for which they were forced to pay excessive "recruitment fees").
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