Posted: Tue 1 Nov 2022, 22:46
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Apple supplier Foxconn is paying bonuses to staff at its Zhengzhou plant in central China, Chinese government-backed media reported, as it works to quell workers’ discontent over Covid-19 restrictions.
Daily bonuses for employees, who are part of a Foxconn unit guilty of producing electronic devices, adding smartphones at the time, rose to one hundred yuan ($13. 70) between Oct. 26 and Nov. 11, the Henan Daily newspaper cited an unnamed corporate official. as if to say. Integrated unit of the virtual products enterprise organization as said on Monday.
The company (formerly Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd) also provides all workers on site, who have worked since Oct. 19 and also adhered to virus prevention measures, with 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.