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2024.08.19

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According to a report by Global Times citing foreign media, Liu Yangwei, chairman of Foxconn, spoke out against the company's alleged refusal to accept married women to work in iPhone assembly during a visit to Foxconn's Chennai factory on Saturday. Previously, foreign media "exposed" that Foxconn refused to accept married women to work in iPhone assembly during recruitment, which aroused public concern in the local area and the Indian government has ordered an investigation.

Liu Yangwei said on the same day, "Foxconn's recruitment does not distinguish between genders, and female employees account for a large proportion of our employees," the report said. "I want to emphasize that married women have made great contributions to everything we do here."

According to the report, Foxconn admitted that there were some omissions in the recruitment process in 2022 and said that it had taken measures to address these problems, but at the same time stated that it "strongly refuted the allegations of employment discrimination."

The Global Times quoted foreign media reports as saying that the media found in an investigation in June that Foxconn systematically excluded married women from its main iPhone assembly plant in India because they believed that married women had more family responsibilities than unmarried women.

The report mentioned that Foxconn's recruitment practices have triggered television debates and newspaper editorials. The federal government led by Indian Prime Minister Modi has ordered Tamil Nadu to provide a detailed report on the matter. Indian labor ministry officials also went to the iPhone factory to question relevant executives.

The report said that as of now, New Delhi has not announced any investigation results.

According to the 21st Century Business Herald, there are reports that Foxconn is transferring some production lines from India and Vietnam back to China, and this year Apple has transferred part of its production capacity back to domestic foundries in China. Apple's new iPhone 16 series will still be assembled in China. In early August, as the iPhone 16 series products entered the critical period of stocking, Foxconn began to raise wages and conduct large-scale recruitment in core manufacturing bases such as Zhengzhou and Shenzhen. Since August 3, Zhengzhou Foxconn's recruitment public account "Zhengzhou Fugonglian Recruitment" has continued to release recruitment information with the "highest price of the year", saying that "this year's peak season recruitment started early in July, so it will end earlier", and the current wage has reached the highest level of the year.

WeChat Editor| Lamb