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Foxconn Refutes UK Media Labor Allegations
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The manufacturer at the center of the iPod labor storm has hit back at suggestions that its workers are underpaid and have to put up with poor working conditions.

 

Foxconn Technology, the largest Taiwan-funded manufacturing company on the mainland, produces electronic equipment for a number of global companies. However, a recent report in a British newspaper, the Daily Mail on Sunday, said that workers at a factory making iPods for Apple Computers Inc have to work 15 hours a day but earn just US$50 a month.

 

Apple has launched an investigation into Foxconn and emphasized it would not tolerate any labor violations. However, Foxconn has added its voice to the controversy saying the newspaper report is groundless.

 

"In Shenzhen our workers can earn at least 580 yuan (US$72.5) a month, which is the minimum salary level fixed by the local government, and starting from this July the basic salary will be adjusted to 700 yuan (US$87.5) in line with the government's new standards," James Lee, senior vice president of Foxconn Technology, told China Daily yesterday.

 

"It's hard to understand for many Westerners but it's true that many of our workers are willing to work overtime to make more money," Lee said. "We don't force them to work extra hours and won't allow them to work overtime for more than 20 hours a week," he added.

 

Practices comply with the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct, which sets out basic labor and environmental standards for IT contractors, he explained.

 

The plant in Longhua, near Shenzhen, exported US$20.7 billion products and paid about 1.46 billion yuan (US$182.5 million) tax last year.

 

Lee believes the controversy is a result of fierce commercial competition.

 

"Apple's iPod players are popular in the global market and play a dominant role in Europe," he said. "Its competitors are finding it hard to compete and that's the reason we've been placed in the limelight," he said.

 

Apple China was not available for comment yesterday. 

 

The local labor department authority told China Daily yesterday that Foxconn is a leading company in the city and it has not received any complaints about it. "I don't think the government will launch a special investigation into Foxconn," a spokesman said.

 

However, a female worker at the factory said the working conditions were alright but not everything was satisfactory. "We're just here to make money and some factories are even worse," she said.

 

(China Daily June 21, 2006)

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