Foxconn lifts wages for workers after Apple launches inspection
FOXCONN, the top maker of Apple’s iPhones and iPads whose factories are under scrutiny over labour practices, has raised wages of its Chinese workers by 16-25 per cent from this month, in the third pay hike since 2010.
The wage increases come just a week after Apple agreed to let a US non-profit labour group inspect working conditions at its main contractors, including Foxconn’s plants in southern China, where thirteen employees committed suicide in 2010.
The computing giant, which is attempting to counter criticism that it is glossing over problems at these facilities, said last week it believed “workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment”.
It has also given ABC TV network special access to the Foxconn plants, in a segment due to air tonight.