Chinese technology firm Foxconn has let know that the salaries of his workers is going to increase. The storage follows shortly after in command of Apple inspections are to be carried out to the working conditions at Foxconn.
According to Foxconn will be the wages of his employees in China immediately with 16 to 25 percent to be increased. This would be a starter now 1800 yuan per month, the equivalent of some 220 euros, per month of earning, excluding overtime. The salary would be after a ‘technical exam’ is increased to 2200 yuan per month, or 265 euros per month, reports Reuters.
Foxconn claims that the salaries with the proposed salary increase already far above the Chinese legal minimum wage are. So three years ago, a Foxconn employee still have to make do with 900 yuan per month, i.e. 110 euros. In addition, it promises to be the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, who is, among other hardware for Apple, Dell and HP manufactures, the number of overtime worked to reduce.
With an additional round of salary increases in 2010 claimed the company’s salaries have doubled – seems Foxconn in wanting to play on critical sounds and sound from the inspectors of the Fair Labor Association. A first team performed the previous week at the request of Apple the first inspection rounds at the plants of Foxconn. Although a final report from the FLA is still a few weeks away, FLA director Auret van Heerden to news agency Bloomberg let them know that inspectors ‘plenty of problems’ have been seen in the Foxconn factories in Shenzhen. Details wanted Van Heerden, however, not yet.
The FLA inspections have also become the necessary criticism. Says Heather White, active in the sister organisation, Verite, that the ondervragingsmethodiek is no good. The inspectors of 35,000 Foxconn employees, among other questionnaires finished with the help of tablets, but this happens within the walls of the factories. White argues that it’s better to have workers at home or outside the production environments to interview to be so honest to get the right answers.