Foxconn offers up to $1,800 bonus to workers to stay in China's iPhone city

[beijingwalker]

Foxconn offers up to $1,800 bonus to workers to stay in China's iPhone city​

28 Nov 2022, 02:06 PM IST

Bloomberg

Apple Inc. partner Foxconn is offering bonuses of as much as $1,800 to existing workers at its Zhengzhou facility, hoping to sustain the staff levels it needs to run the world’s largest iPhone factory.

Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., will top up wages by as much as 13,000 yuan ( $ 1,860) per month in December and January for full-time workers who’d joined at the start of November or earlier, the company said in a notice over the weekend. Last week, Foxconn offered similar bonuses for workers opting to leave its campus, largely to usher out new arrivals who’d participated in violent protests against virus lockdowns.

The unusually generous bonus reflects Foxconn’s urgent need to get assembly lines back up to full speed after a month of dealing with Covid curbs and disruptions that culminated in unrest last week. The Zhengzhou campus, which normally houses upwards of 200,000 staff, is where the vast majority of Apple’s iPhone Pro models are assembled. More than 20,000 new hires are reported to have left after the protests.

Apple has said it’s working closely with Foxconn to restore operations and both companies have expressed a commitment to ensuring worker safety.

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are Apple’s most in-demand handsets this year, offsetting slumping sales for its regular iPhone 14 editions. The Foxconn situation serves up another reminder of the dangers for Apple of relying on a vast production machine centered on China at a time of unpredictable policy and uncertain trade relations. The US company warned this month that shipments of its newest premium iPhones will be lower than previously expected -- just ahead of the peak holiday shopping season.

Analysts at Morgan Stanley cut their iPhone Pro output estimates for the current quarter by 6 million units earlier this month. In a worst-case scenario of prolonged lockdowns impacting assembly at Zhengzhou, Foxconn is seen risking as much as 36% of iPhone revenue or 20% of its overall sales in the quarter.

Foxconn offers up to $1,800 bonus to workers to stay in China's iPhone city

Last week, Foxconn offered similar bonuses for workers opting to leave its campus, largely to usher out new arrivals who’d participated in violent protests against virus lockdowns

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[Viet]

This corona mess will stay here forever. Moving Apple factories to Vietnam is the only solution.

 

[beijingwalker]

The pay is too low to retain the workers.

 

[Ali_Baba]

This corona mess will stay here forever. Moving Apple factories to Vietnam is the only solution.

The solution is to accept that Covid is here to stay - get over national "pride" issue over vaccines - and to also speak with your population of the reality of the situation with honesty - ie treat them as adults - and - vaccinate fully as "possible" on a fixed timeline after which you then fully open up.

Some people will die - no way arfound it.

 

[Viet]

The solution is to accept that Covid is here to stay - get over national "pride" issue over vaccines - and to also speak with your population of the reality of the situation with honesty - ie treat them as adults - and - vaccinate fully as "possible" on a fixed timeline after which you then fully open up.

Some people will die - no way arfound it.

Ccp faces a big dilemma. The party can’t open the floodgates not before the majority of population is vaccinated. But using western vaccines will mean admitting they made a mistake. Either ways relaxing the rules will mean hundreds thousands of deaths. That’s not an easy decision to make.

 

[beijingwalker]

Ccp faces a big dilemma. The party can’t open the floodgates not before the majority of population is vaccinated. But using western vaccines will mean admitting they made a mistake. Either ways relaxing the rules will mean hundreds thousands of deaths. That’s not an easy decision to make.

Western vaccines? let everyone get infected by covid you mean?

An estimated 94% of people in the U.S. have been infected with the COVID-19 virus at least once, according to according to a new paper from researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health.

Just 1 in 20 people in the U.S. have dodged COVID infection so far, study says

There are two big reasons the infection rate has reached this surprising level, according to the researchers.

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[beijingwalker]

Workers begin returning to Foxconn iPhone plant in China​

Friday, 02 Dec 2022

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): Some 10,000 workers have returned to the world's largest Apple iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province since Monday (Nov 28), and more are on their way, Foxconn said on Thursday.

The Foxconn plant has sent coaches to return them to employee dormitories in an arrangement known as "point-to-point transportation" aimed at avoiding infection during the journey.

Upon arrival, workers need to go through a five-day health monitoring period before starting work, the plant said in a written response to China Daily.

The company has rolled out incentives to encourage employees to work in a closed-loop environment, offered psychological counseling and worked to ensure that warm clothes, food and other necessities are in abundant supply, it said.


"Under the guidance of epidemic control experts, a series of prevention and control measures have been taken, with a focus on balancing epidemic prevention and our production," the statement said.

The return of workers forms part of a broader effort by local authorities to ramp up production after a spike in Covid-19 cases in the provincial capital prompted a mass exodus of its employees in late October

As many as 300,000 workers work the assembly lines during the peak production season at the sprawling Foxconn plant in the Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, it has been reported.

Workers begin returning to Foxconn iPhone plant in China

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): Some 10,000 workers have returned to the world's largest Apple iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou, Henan province since Monday (Nov 28), and more are on their way, Foxconn said on Thursday.

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