Foxconn Offers Triple Pay to iPhone Plant Workers Returning Earlier From Chinese New Year Holiday - Yicai Global

(Yicai Global) Jan. 30 -- Hon Hai Precision Industry, amended known arsenic Foxconn, has offered triple wage to workers that returned to the world’s largest iPhone mill successful China earlier from the Lunar New Year holiday, Yicai Global learned from a worker.

To support up with the accumulation docket delayed by the Covid-19 epidemic and heighten the firm’s cardinal relation successful Apple’s concern chain, Foxconn offered a bonus of CNY13,000 (USD1,920) to staffers who returned to enactment connected Jan. 23, 2 days aft the opening of the week-long Spring Festival holiday, said the idiosyncratic astatine the iPhone mill successful Zhengzhou, Henan province. The mean monthly wage is CNY5,000 to CNY6,000 (USD740 to USD885), the idiosyncratic added.

All the 7 roommates of the idiosyncratic Yicai Global talked with came backmost connected Jan. 23 to person the triple pay.

The manager of the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, wherever Foxconn’s works is located, besides offered ‘red package’ gifts of CNY1,000 to workers astatine cardinal enterprises specified arsenic Foxconn who remained connected work during the vacation Yicai Global learned. 

A Covid-19 outbreak deed Foxconn’s iPhone works successful Zhengzhou successful precocious October past year. In November, Apple announced that the accumulation of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max would beryllium little than expected due to the fact that of the disruptions astatine the Zhengzhou plant.

The US tech elephantine also entrusted other contract manufacturers to assemble immoderate high-end mobile phones to guarantee the supply, Guo Mingqi, an analyst at Tianfeng International Securities, said successful a probe report. Apple did not corroborate the news, but the idea that it may gradually trim its reliance on Foxconn began to instrumentality root.

“Apple person entrusted our institution to assemble mobile phones successful past years, but its program for this year’s iPhone 15 is uncertain,” the idiosyncratic told Yicai Global, adding that the iPhone 15 1 has go a concerning taxable among front-line staff.

Henan province is keeping a adjacent oculus connected the practice between Foxconn and Apple. Since the company entered Zhengzhou successful 2010, it has provided jobs for much than one million people and boosted the standard of the local electronics industry to CNY100 billion (USD14.8 billion), accounting for 60 percent of Henan’s full import and export worth for years.

Editors: Shi Yi, Futura Costaglione