Married women can't build iphones? Foxconn responds!

Married women can't build iphones? Foxconn responds! During a visit to Foxconn's factory in Chennai, India, on Saturday, Foxconn Chairman Liu Yangwei spoke out about the company's alleged refusal to allow married women to assemble iphones. Earlier, foreign media "exposure" Foxconn recruitment refused married women to work in iPhone assembly, the incident caused public concern in the local, the Indian government has ordered an investigation. According to the report, Liu Yangwei said on the same day, "Foxconn's recruitment does not distinguish between genders, and female employees occupy a large proportion here," and "I want to stress that married women have made great contributions to everything we do here." Foxconn acknowledged some omissions in its 2022 hiring process and said it had taken steps to address them, but said it "strongly refutes allegations of employment discrimination." An investigation by the media outlet in June found that Foxconn's main iPhone assembly plant in India systematically excluded married women because they were believed to have more domestic responsibilities than unmarried women. Foxconn's hiring practices have sparked television debates and newspaper editorials. The federal government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered Tamil Nadu to provide a detailed report on the matter. Officials from India's labor ministry also went to the iPhone factory to question executives. So far, New Delhi has not released any findings. It has emerged that Foxconn is moving some production back to China from India and Vietnam, and Apple has already moved some production back to domestic contract factories this year. Apple's new phones, the iPhone16 series, will still be assembled in China. In early August, as the iPhone16 series products entered the critical period of stocking, Foxconn began to raise wages and conduct large-scale recruitment in core manufacturing bases such as Zhengzhou and Shenzhen. Since August 3, Zhengzhou Foxconn recruitment public number "Zhengzhou Fu Trade Union recruitment" continued to release the "highest price of the year" recruitment information, saying that "this year's peak season recruitment began in July, so the end will be earlier", the current wage has reached the highest in the year.