Foxconn Technologies has again increased salaries at its Shenzhen, China factory, where the majority of Apple products are assembled.
Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted company spokesman Liu Kun as saying the roughly 66% pay rise for assembly line workers would bring salaries to 2,000 yuan (£189) per month. The increase will benefit about 85% of workers at the Shenzhen factory, the report added.
The pay rise is the second in the space of five months, following a 30% hike in June.
Eleven suicides this year at the sprawling manufacturing base has brought intense scrutiny of Taiwan’s Hon Hai, the owner of Foxconn, which also counts Dell and HP among its clients. The company has tried addressing the problem by improving living conditions for workers, organising activities to boost moral and bumping up wages.
Hon Hai said in August it would have as many as 1.3 million workers in China by the end of 2011, up from 920,000 now, but would focus the expansion away from its increasingly expensive Shenzhen plant, in areas where there are more workers and wages are lower.
Reuters
