Samsung Says Its Chinese Assembler Didn’t Have Child Workers

Samsung Electronics Co. said it didn’t find underage workers at a Chinese assembler accused by a New York-based group of using child labor.

While investigators sent by Samsung found some employees younger than 18, the student workers and interns were over 16, and their employment is legal, the Suwon, South Korea-based company said in a statement yesterday. China Labor Watch said last month seven children younger than 16 were working in the factory of HEG Electronics (Huizhou) Co. that makes phones and DVD players for Samsung.