Foxconn, the Taiwan based manufacturer of electronics goods and also the maker of the Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad, has declared its plans to hire more 400,000 workers over the next 1 year.
The management has aso announced that it would enable the company to cut employees’ overtime maintaining the production line.
Foxconn is a part of Hon Hai Precision, the largest maker of consumer electronics in the world. Moreover it is one of the biggest employers in China.
The experts think that the ever increasing demand for Apple’s devices have motivated the decision. However other sources think that the work pressure and treatment to its workers have led to the suicides of 13 Chinese employees, earlier this year, at the Foxconn factories in China. The rise of such cases have raised a concern over the work pressure. It was revealed that the workers get compelled to work overtime to earn money and at the same time the high production demand.
However, the Foxconn management has always denied that the suicides were work-related and that the company mistreats its workers. But it has admitted that the people at Foxconn have to do more overtime than the maximum limit permitted by Chinese law.
It has also argued that many of the major manufacturers follow the same thing.
The suicidal cases have threatened to tarnish the image of top the global brands, like Apple, Dell and Nokia, for which Foxconn manufactures laptops and Smartphones.
Early this year, the company has announced wage increases and the plans to open their production centers in China’s inner provinces so that the people, many of whom come from those provinces, can stay closer to their families. However the new hiring will make the count of the Foxconn’s workforce in China as huge as 1.3 million.
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