The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) announced Tuesday it had terminated the Olympic product license of a stationery company in south China's Guangdong Province for using child labor.

BOCOG said in a statement on its website that investigations into child labor allegations by PlayFair 2008, a global alliance of trade unions and labor organizations, had found Lekit Stationery Company Ltd. did use child labor, but not for products which were related to Olympic products.

The investigations were done by the Labor Department of Guangdong Province, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and BOCOG.

BOCOG ordered the Guangdong company to stop manufacturing and selling the products immediately.

Investigators said that the three other companies involved in the scandal had not used child labor. But they did suspend the examination and approval of new product designs produced by the three companies after finding they had forced employees to work overtime, ordering them to "rectify their mistakes".

The three companies are Eagle Leather Products Co. Ltd., Yue Wing Cheong Light Products Ltd. and Mainland Headwear Holdings Ltd..

Lekit Stationery Co. hired eight students, who were on vacation, in January and February this year to package products, the statement said, without revealing their ages.

It was also found to have hired workers without signing labor contracts with them.

(Xinhua News Agency August 1, 2007)