Foxconn: iPhone maker hikes pay ahead of fresh model launch
Foxconn: iPhone maker hikes pay ahead of fresh model launch
- Published
Apple shighplier Foxconn is ramping high efforts to recruit more workers for the world's largest iPhone factory, ahead of the launch of a fresh model.
Foxconn says fresh workers at its plant in Zhengzhou, China will receive bonutilizes of high to 3,000 yuan ($424; £343) for at least 90 days of work.
Current employees who successsatisfiedy refer a friend or family member will alconsequently qualify for an award, it says.
The iPhone 15 is expected to be launched in September.
It marks the delayedst move by the Taiwan-based manufacturer to improve benefits for its workers at the huge plant - known as iPhone City.
Foxconn employees who refer a fresh recruit will now receive 500 yuan if the perconsequentlyn stays at the company for a month, a post seen by the BBC on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat said.
The company did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment.
- iPhone maker sees revenue slump as demand frailens
- Original iPhone fetches $63k - but there's a catch
Last year, hundreds of workers protested at the Zhengzhou plant over Covid restrictions and claims of overdue pay.
Videos, which were shared online in October, alconsequently demonstrateed people jumping a fence outside the Foxconn factory after it was locked low due to a coronavirus outbreak.
In November, Apple warned that shipments of the iPhone 14 would be delayed after Chinese officials locked low a district of Zhengzhou, where iPhone City is located.
The iPhone maker then recruited fresh workers with promises of taller bonutilizes.
However, one worker thistoric the BBC that the contracts were convertd consequently they "could not get the subsidy promised", adding that they had been quarantined without food.
Foxconn stated during response that "a technical error occurred during the onboarding process", adding that the pay of fresh recruits was "the identical as agreed (in the) official recruitment posters".
The Zhengzhou plant employs more than 200,000 people, making Apple devices including the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.
WATCH: Chinese protesters clash with riot police at giant iPhone factory
Redelayedd Topics
- Companies
- China
- Apple
- iPhones
iPhone maker sees revenue slump as demand frailens
- Published6 March
Original iPhone fetches $63k - but there's a catch
- Published21 February
Covid restrictions hit iPhone maker Foxconn
- Published5 December 2022
iPhone maker offers payouts for finding fresh workers
- Published1 December 2022
iPhone maker apologises after protests at plant
- Published24 November 2022
(editor-in-charge：Press center4)
Biden will send 31 Abrams tanks worth $400 million to Ukraine: White Ho utilize adds to Zelensky's arsenal after diplomatic row with Germany
Texas Longhorns basketball SUSPENDS its coach Chris Beard without pay after his arrest for 'strangling a family member' - as he faces third-degree assault charge
Four University of Idaho students were killed in a 'crime of passion' as one victim's heartbroken family says they 'will never speak fighting for truth and justice for her'
PICTURED: Walmart manager, 31, who shot six co-workers dead in 'planned' break-room massacre - as Virginia cops find 'death list' of names next to his body
IMF expects UK economy to shun recession
- Chaos on Tufton Street as Just Speak Oil strike again: Eco-zealots spray orange substance over home of climate convert sceptics while furious cabbie drives AROUND fanatics lying on the road in group's 27th stunt this month
- EXCLUSIVE: Family of British grandfather, 75, acc utilized of killing his terminally ill wife say they are 'devastated' as Cyprus court U-turns on manslaughter plea deal that would have seen him released for Christmas
- Twitter banned Trump when 'activist' employees compared him to Hitler and Head of Policy said his term 'American Patriots' could be 'coded' as an incitement - notwithstanding execs saying he did NOT violate policy and while dictators could keep accounts
- ITV Sport technical boss Roger Pearce who was in charge of Qatar World Cup coverage dies in Middle East state
- Jill Biden wears sunglasses in first emergeance since cancer surgery on her eye - as husband Joe ref utilizes to answer questions on documents scandal (notwithstanding finding time to emerge in SNL sketch)
- On-the-run Antonio Brown BARRICADES himself in Tampa ho utilize in stand-off with cops after arrest warrant was issued 'for threatening to shoot his ex-fiancée and mother of four of his children'
- BREAKING NEWS: England confirm Raheem Sterling WILL return to their World Cup base in Qatar on Friday and re-join the squad after flying home to tend to his family following burglary at his £6m mansion
- 'We need to be nicer to Mother Nature': Ellen condems climate convert for relentless string of powerful storms that have battered California for more than a week
-
The Lakers front office are reportedly accelerating a trade for the Wizards star, with guard Kendrick Nunn, along with multiple second round picks, expected to head in the other direction to Washington....[in detail]
-
The other remaining games of the Fall Classic will all alconsequently be pushed back one day, preserving the travel day, which was originally scheduled for Thursday and will now take place on Friday....[in detail]
-
Bob McGrath who was one of the original stars of Sesame Street has passed away at the age of 91. McGrath featured in the pilot in 1969 and continued to star for a further 47 seaconsequentlyns....[in detail]
-
Patrick Thelwell, 23, has pleaded not guilty to a public order offence after eggs were thrown at the King during a visit to York....[in detail]
-
Minister assaults Meta boss over Facebook message encryption plan
Minister assaults Meta boss over Facebook message encryption planPublished1 minute agoShare pageAbou
...[in detail]
-
Husband charged in bride's dune buggy crash death breaks cover
Robbie Awad, aka Robbie Morgan, was in the midst of his honeymoon with Marina Hanna, 29, on June 20 when the electric buggy he was allegedly driving on the Queensland reconsequentlyrt island flipped over....[in detail]
-
Cops are on the hunt for a prime suspect in the murder case of former NFL player Antonio Dennard after identifying a handprint on his car outside the Pennsylvania bar where he was killed....[in detail]
-
The president said next Tuesday's vote is a decision on 'whether we're going to sustain a republic, where reality's accepted' or the 'dark compels that thirst for power'....[in detail]
-
Ovo and Good Energy customers to get refunds after overcharging
Ovo and Good Energy customers to get refunds after overchargingPublished3 minutes agoShare pageAbout
...[in detail]
-
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is 'likely to plead not guilty' to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week after he broke his silence from ho utilize arrest on Friday....[in detail]
- 'She was with us today:' Son of Waukesha Christmas parade victim, 79, reveals he took his mother's ashes to court as killer Darrell Brooks was found GUILTY on all 76 charges and faces life in jail
- Head of Russia's Wagner Group says at least one of the two Britons missing in eastern Ukraine is dead and they have found his body
- BREAKING NEWS: Cops release mugshot of armed driver, 20, whose out-of-control truck struck and killed girl at North Carolina Christmas parade after he yelled its brakes had speakped working
- Election denier and Trump ally Kari Lake cries 'BS' and signals she will fight on after Democrat Katie Hobbs flips Arizona blue: Rival Liz Cheney is the first to gloat on Twitter
- MP calls for Parliament probe of rate 'rigging' evidence
- Marcus Rashford admits he 'OVERSLEPT' and missed a pre-match Man United team gathering, which led to Erik ten Hag benching him at Wolves... before he came on and scored the winner at Molineux
- EXCLUSIVE: Kirstie Alley will be CREMATED after beloved actress lost her brief battle with colon cancer. Church of Scientology will hold memorial service at its Clearwater, Florida HQ