Foxconn Workers Getting Another Raise Up to 66%
Foxconn is making an effort to make life better for its workers.
Admidst all the suicides at Foxconn, the manufacturer has announced another increase in pay for those who qualify.
The upcoming raise, which will take effect as soon as October, could boost wages by up to 66 percent to 2,000 yuan per month ($293 USD) for employees that pass a three month performance review, according to Reuters. Foxconn did not detail what the evaluation would be based on.
The 66 percent raise will come on top of the 30 percent wage increase that was announced last week. Prior to the raise, workers were earning 900 yuan ($132 USD) a week.
"This wage increase has been instituted to safeguard the dignity of workers, accelerate economic transformation, support Foxconn's long-term objective of continued evolution from a manufacturing leader to a technology leader, and to rally and sustain the best of our workforce," said Foxconn founder and Chairman Terry Gou in a statement.
"We are working diligently to ensure that our workplace standards and remuneration not only continue to meet the rapidly changing needs of our employees, but that they are best in class."
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Prior to the raise, they were earning 132 USD a week. Now, after the raise, they will get 293 USD a month. Forget a pay raise, that appears to be a pay drop of over 40%?
Im guessing its both the pay per month.
I seriously doubt they make over 1000 dollars a month.
if they pass a performance review? sounds skeptical
you mean manufacture products for Apple dirt cheap.
Big pay rises? Why not hire more staff and work shorter shifts? Then they could do more than just sleep and work..
Big pay rises? Why not hire more staff and work shorter shifts? Then they could do more than just sleep and work..
^ This ^- I'll add, being able to talk a bit too.
Isn't this a double post? I swear I've read this news word-for-word already...
Prior to the raise, they were earning 132 USD a week. Now, after the raise, they will get 293 USD a month. Forget a pay raise, that appears to be a pay drop of over 40%?
No, the wages will be boosted *BY* 293 USD a month.
Personally I don't see this happening. The 3=month plan review is likely to be massively stringent and will involve the workers pushing themselves even harder to qualify, which ultimately won't change a damn thing.
66% of nothing is still nothing.
We complain about hard times in the west and it doesn't compare to how hard life is elsewhere, these people even have to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week to get that money
And why oh why have you used a picture of some poor desperate guy splattered all over the pavement? I understand well the controversy regarding Foxconn and the high suicide rate, but graphic images of dead people do not belong on a tech site. It is bad enough this poor soul was driven to low depths of depression he killed himself, it is undignified to post his picture here for titillation
You know who is responsible for all this?
Yep thats right...all of us!
All of us wanting our lovely deluxe electronic gadgets at affordable prices.
I hope the net result of this is prices go up and folks realise this stuff is a luxury and not a god given right to have at any cost including driving folks to their death.
Wow their pay rates are going through the roof.
No, the wages will be boosted *BY* 293 USD a month.
the article says that their wages will be boosted *TO* 2000 yuan per month (239USD), not BY
A performance evaluation? To pass that, employees will likely have to work *at least* as much as they do now.
And last time I looked, many of the suicides were motivated by the extremely long work hours.
This pay rise is good, but please combine it with a more human work schedule. But then again, hiring more staff is more expensive than giving a raise to existing workers.
They need the long hours, because the pay is so low that they need the overtime pay to survive.
Also I think you should remove the picture, its inappropriate and not something I particularly want to have to see.