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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Apple supplier Foxconn says it will raise salaries
Apple supplier Foxconn says it will raise salaries | Apple - CNET News CNET News @import "http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/Ads/common/css/SponsoredTextLink/sponsoredTextLink.live.css"; Manage Packages With UPS My Choice Home Reviews Cell Phones Camcorders Digital Cameras Laptops TVs Car Tech Forums Appliances Cell Phone Accessories Components Desktops E-book Readers Games and Gear GPS Hard Drives & Storage Headphones Home Audio Home Video Internet Access Monitors MP3 Players Networking and Wi-Fi Peripherals Printers Software Tablets Web Hosting You are here: News Latest News Mobile Startups Cutting Edge Media Security Business Tech Health Tech Crave Apple Microsoft Politics & Law Gaming & Culture Blogs Video Photos RSS Download Windows Software Mac Software Mobile Apps Web Apps The Download Blog CNET TV How To Computers Home Theater Smartphones Tablets Web Marketplace Log In | Join Log In Join CNET Sign in with My profile Log out .mad_center {text-align:center;} .mad_center div, .mad_center table, .mad_center iframe, .mad_center a img {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;} CNET News Apple Apple supplier Foxconn says it will raise salaries by Edward Moyer February 19, 2012 12:18 PM PST Follow @edatnews
The now infamous maker of parts for theiPad and theiPhone says it will increase worker salaries at factories in China, according to a report.
Suicide nets at a Foxconn facility.(Credit:CBS video; screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET)
Infamous Apple supplier Foxconn said this weekend that it would increase worker salaries at its Chinese factories by 16 percent to 25 percent--bringing them to about $400 a month.
The New York Times reported the news, adding that Foxconn said the increases would happen immediately and that overtime hours would be curbed at the factories as well.
Foxconn's announcement comes as its facilities are being investigated at the behest of Apple, a major Foxconn client. Foxconn produces components for the iPad and the iPhone.
Apple is feeling the heat from human rights advocates and others after the Times published a series of exposés on the company and its supply chain, including Foxconn. It wasn't the first time Foxconn's practices had been called into question, but the high-profile paper's detailed reports helped push the issue into mainstream consciousness, sparking widespread editorials, calls for boycotts of Apple, petitions, and demonstrations at Apple stores.
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In response, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a statement saying that any suggestion that Apple doesn't care about worker welfare is "false and offensive." Apple has also asked the Fair Labor Association, an organization that says it's "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide," to investigate Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The FLA's report isn't due till next month, but the group's chief executive said this week that the FLA had already found "tons of issues" with Foxconn.
Foxconn doesn't exactly beg to be given the benefit of the doubt. Part of the company's reaction to a series of worker suicides was to install suicide nets--nets Apple critic and performance artist Mike Daisey said looked a lot like "the nets you would put out to catch fish." (The company raised salaries then as well, and hired more counselors.) Foxconn CEO Terry Gou also made a misstep when he sought management advice from the director of the Taipei Zoo and compared his workforce to animals, adding that "to manage 1 million animals gives me a headache."
The Times said Foxconn could not be reached for additional comment on the salary increases.
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