Foxconn Roof Nets

Nets have now been hung from the foxconn factory in china after a dozen employees committed suicide.

Foxconn roof nets.

Foxconn offers pay rises and suicide nets as fears grow over wave of deaths. Beaten to death and his body thrown off a roof. Inside secretive iphone factory with safety nets to stop workers killing themselves this is where your iphones are made a top secret and haunting chinese factory which employs up to 50 000. The visit was revealed by apple in a report this week.

Foxconn s enormous longhua plant is a major manufacturer of apple products. The series of suicides drew media attention and employment practices at foxconn one of the world s largest contract electronics manufacturers. Cook the company. The largest foxconn factory is located in longhua town shenzhen where hundreds of thousands of workers varying counts include 230 000 300 000 and 450 000 are employed at the longhua science technology park a walled campus sometimes referred to as foxconn city.

Around 150 chinese workers at foxconn the world s largest electronics manufacturer threatened to commit suicide by leaping from their factory roof in protest at their working conditions. This article is more than 10 years old. According to other research by chan foxconn s operating margins have declined steadily over the past six years from 3 7 percent in the first quarter of 2007 to a mere 1 5 percent in the third. Foxconn has 12 factories in nine chinese cities more than in any other country.

People familiar with the factory of taiwan iphone maker foxconn in china describe the working atmosphere there which has been blamed for a a spate of suicides this year. It might be the best known factory in the world.