The Apple supplier has offered $1,400 compensation to any disgruntled workers who choose to leave the factory a day after violence broke out over unpaid wages.
Reuters, Foxconn blamed the chaos on a “technical error” in its hiring process for new workers which triggered concerns among workers that they would not receive a bonus payment promised to them at the time of recruitment.
Foxconn did not elaborate on the nature of the error but pushed back against reports of a Covid-19 outbreak in its worker dormitoriesA bonus payment and higher wages were promised to all new recruits in an effort to get workers to return to the plant after several fled the premises in October over Covid concerns and poor living conditions.
Several new recruits, however, began protesting after they found out that they would receive these special bonuses only if they stayed at the factory till March, BloombergTo quell the workers anger over the issue, Foxconn has offered ¥10,000 compensation to new recruits who choose to leave the plant, saying it would respect their wishes.
Due to China’s restrictive zero-Covid policy, workers at the factory have been forced to live on-site in a closed bubble—isolated inside dorms where they face food shortages and lack of proper access to medicines among other things.Chaos as the massive “iPhone City” manufacturing campus which houses more than 200,000 people on Wednesday has prompted officials in the city of Zhengzhou—where the factory is located—toin parts of the city deemed to be “high risk.
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