Apple supplier Foxconn gives pay rise to staff hit by COVID lockdown - media - Reuters

Nov 1 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) has accrued wages and is handing bonuses to workers astatine its Zhengzhou works successful cardinal China, Chinese government-backed media reported, arsenic it works to quell worker discontent astatine the tract implicit COVID curbs.

Daily wages for employees, who are portion of a Foxconn portion liable for making electronics including smartphones astatine the site, person been raised to 100 yuan ($13.70) betwixt Oct. 26 to Nov. 11, the Henan Daily paper cited an unnamed caput of the firm's integrated integer merchandise concern radical portion arsenic saying connected Monday.

The company, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, is besides giving each employees astatine the tract who person attended enactment arsenic mean since Oct. 19 and complied with microorganism prevention measures a bonus of 50 yuan a day, the idiosyncratic said.

Foxconn did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the Henan Daily article. The Henan Daily is the authoritative paper of the state of Henan, of which Zhengzhou is the capital.

Foxconn is Apple's biggest iPhone maker, producing 70% of iPhone shipments globally. It makes astir of the phones astatine the Zhengzhou works wherever it employs astir 200,000 people, though it has different smaller accumulation sites successful India and southbound China.

The Zhengzhou works has been rocked by discontent implicit stringent measures to curb the dispersed of COVID-19, with respective workers fleeing the tract implicit the weekend. work much

Reuters reported connected Monday, citing a source, that November accumulation of iPhones could slump by arsenic overmuch arsenic 30% astatine the works owed to the concern and that Foxconn was moving to boost accumulation astatine different mill successful Shenzhen metropolis to marque up for the shortfall. work much

($1 = 7.3015 Chinese yuan renminbi)

Reporting by Brenda Goh; Additional reporting by Yimou Lee successful Taipei; Editing by Stephen Coates

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