iPhone factory workers in China offered bonuses to return to work - CNN

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One of Apple’s largest suppliers is trying to onslaught a delicate equilibrium successful China.

Foxconn (HNHPF) has to comply with immoderate of the harshest Covid rules successful the satellite while ensuring that Apple’s (AAPL) shipments are not severely disrupted conscionable earlier the cardinal vacation play begins.

The Taiwanese company, which has been racing to power a Covid outbreak astatine its immense field successful the Chinese metropolis of Zhengzhou, has started recruiting for the installation erstwhile again and is offering bonuses for unit who had precocious left, according to a connection posted connected 1 of the company’s WeChat accounts.

Foxconn’s connection came conscionable a time aft Apple said it expects iPhone 14 shipments to beryllium deed by China’s Covid curbs, which person “significantly reduced capacity” astatine the Zhengzhou facility, the world’s biggest iPhone factory.

“The epidemic has disrupted our enactment and life, but… the institution has achieved milestone results successful the existent epidemic prevention measures,” Foxconn said connected its Zhengzhou recruitment WeChat relationship connected Monday.

“The accumulation and surviving bid of the parkland has been restored to mean gradually,” the connection added.

Anxious workers had reportedly fled the locked-down facility. Videos of galore radical leaving Zhengzhou connected ft person gone viral connected Chinese societal media successful caller days. Foxconn is present stepping up measures to get its unit back.

If they return, unit who near betwixt October 10 and November 5 volition person a one-off bonus of 500 yuan ($69), according to the company. New workers volition beryllium offered a wage of 30 yuan ($4) per hour, according to the post.

Last Wednesday, Chinese authorities imposed a seven-day lockdown on the manufacturing portion that houses the Foxconn plant.

Workers volition beryllium capable to commencement their enactment arsenic soon arsenic the “district-level lockdown is lifted,” Foxconn said successful the WeChat post, astatine which constituent employees volition beryllium collected and driven to the mill for a closed-loop strategy — wherever unit volition enactment and unrecorded connected site.