In response to the incident about more than dozen of employees who committed suicide in 16-month period, employees at the Foxconn facilities in China are forced to sign a pledge promising that they will not commit suicide.
This latest revelation comes from a new report that looks into the notoriously grim working conditions of the gadget manufacturing plant. Foxconn is hired by companies like Apple, HP, Nokia and Dell, to build their fleets of laptops, smartphones and tablets.
The firm has a reputation for depressed workers and suicides, with some plants even putting up “anti-suicide” nets to catch employees who throw themselves off buildings, or bringing in monks to exorcise evil spirits. The plant’s managers and companies like Apple have promised to improve conditions and wages.
“It is very troubling,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, when asked in June 2010 about the numerous suicides. “Apple does one of the best jobs of any company understanding the working conditions of our supply chain. We are all over this.”
Labor group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) went to the facility and interviewed more than a hundred employees in March and April 2011, to survey the current working conditions. The report found staff working overtime that exceeded the legal limit, endless back-to-back shifts and dormitories that feel like prison blocks.
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This latest revelation comes from a new report that looks into the notoriously grim working conditions of the gadget manufacturing plant. Foxconn is hired by companies like Apple, HP, Nokia and Dell, to build their fleets of laptops, smartphones and tablets.
The firm has a reputation for depressed workers and suicides, with some plants even putting up “anti-suicide” nets to catch employees who throw themselves off buildings, or bringing in monks to exorcise evil spirits. The plant’s managers and companies like Apple have promised to improve conditions and wages.
“It is very troubling,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, when asked in June 2010 about the numerous suicides. “Apple does one of the best jobs of any company understanding the working conditions of our supply chain. We are all over this.”
Labor group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) went to the facility and interviewed more than a hundred employees in March and April 2011, to survey the current working conditions. The report found staff working overtime that exceeded the legal limit, endless back-to-back shifts and dormitories that feel like prison blocks.
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