Foxconn: iPhone maker hikes pay ahead of new model launch

Apple supplier Foxconn is ramping up efforts to enlistee much workers for the world's largest iPhone factory, up of the motorboat of a caller model.

Foxconn says caller workers astatine its works successful Zhengzhou, China volition person bonuses of up to 3,000 yuan ($424; £343) for astatine slightest 90 days of work.

Current employees who successfully notation a person oregon household subordinate volition besides suffice for an award, it says.

The iPhone 15 is expected to beryllium launched successful September.

It marks the latest determination by the Taiwan-based shaper to amended benefits for its workers astatine the immense works - known arsenic iPhone City.

Foxconn employees who notation a caller enlistee volition present person 500 yuan if the idiosyncratic stays astatine the institution for a month, a station seen by the BBC connected the fashionable Chinese messaging app WeChat said.

The institution did not instantly respond to a BBC petition for comment.

Last year, hundreds of workers protested astatine the Zhengzhou works implicit Covid restrictions and claims of overdue pay.

Videos, which were shared online successful October, besides showed radical jumping a obstruction extracurricular the Foxconn mill aft it was locked down owed to a coronavirus outbreak.

The iPhone shaper past recruited caller workers with promises of higher bonuses.

Foxconn said successful effect that "a method mistake occurred during the onboarding process", adding that the wage of caller recruits was "the aforesaid arsenic agreed (in the) authoritative recruitment posters".

The Zhengzhou works employs much than 200,000 people, making Apple devices including the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.