(Reuters) – Apple supplier Foxconn has raised wages and paid bonuses to staff at its factory in central China’s Zhengzhou, Chinese government-backed media reported, as it worked to quell workers’ discontent over COVID restrictions.
Daily wages for the employees, who are part of a Foxconn unit tasked with making electronics and adding smartphones at the site, rose to one hundred yuan ($13. 70) between Oct. 26 and Nov. 11, the Henan Daily newspaper reported, citing an anonymous report. Official of the incorporated unit of the company’s Virtual Products business group. said Monday.
The company, formerly Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, also gives all workers at the site who have worked since Oct. 19 and adhered to virus prevention measures a bonus of 50 yuan per day, the user said.
Foxconn did not respond to a request for comment on the Henan Daily article. The Henan Daily is the official newspaper of Henan province, of which Zhengzhou is the capital.
Foxconn is Apple’s largest iPhone maker and generates 70% of the world’s iPhone shipments. It makes most of the phones at the Zhengzhou factory, where it employs about 200,000 people. It has other smaller production sites in India and southern China.
The Zhengzhou plant was rocked by discontent with strict measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, with several employees leaving the site over the weekend.
Reuters reported on Monday, citing a source, that iPhone production in November could fall 30% at the plant due to the scenario and that Foxconn is racing to increase production at some other plant in the city of Shenzhen to make up the shortfall.
($1 = 7. 3015 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Brenda Goh; Additional reporting by Yimou Lee in Taipei; Editing by Stephen Coates)
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