Tuesday November 1, 2022 2:04 p.m. PDT by

Apple supplier Foxconn is quadrupling regular bonuses provided to workers successful bid to clasp capable employees to proceed assembling iPhones, reports Reuters. In November, Foxconn is offering workers astatine its Zhengzhou works a bonus of 400 yuan per time ($55), up 4x from the mean 100 yuan bonus.

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Employees who enactment for much than 25 days tin get a maximum bonus of 5,000 yuan for the month, up from 1,500 yuan, and those who enactment successful "full effort" tin gain a bonus of implicit 15,000 yuan. Most workers gain betwixt 3,000 and 4,000 yuan connected a monthly basis.

Foxconn employs astir 200,000 radical successful Zhengzhou, the mill that is utilized for astir of its iPhone production. Foxconn is liable for assembling astir 70 percent of the iPhones that Apple sells, and it has been struggling to support employees connected tract owed to COVID lockdowns.

Because of China's zero-COVID policy, Chinese cities are required to rapidly quell outbreaks done restrictions, and with COVID spreading successful Zhengzhou, workers person wanted to instrumentality location to debar being stuck astatine the mill should determination beryllium a much stringent lockdown. Workers person besides been unhappy with restrictions astatine the factory, specified arsenic the closure of the dine-in cafeteria, and a shortage of supplies that caused a panic.

Employee issues astatine the Zhengzhou works could origin ‌iPhone‌ output to autumn as overmuch arsenic 30 percent, though Foxconn is moving to mitigate the proviso issues by offering the bonuses and ramping up accumulation astatine different mill successful Shenzhen.

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