Foxconn Raises Pay, Cuts Probation for Workers at Apple Factory
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Foxconn Technology Group, which pledged to improve pay and conditions on its assembly lines, raised salaries by more than 16 percent at a plant making Apple Inc. iPhones and halved the probation period for new workers.
Monthly salaries for entry-level employees at the factory in Zhengzhou were raised starting Aug. 1 to 1,800 yuan ($283) from 1,550 yuan, the Taipei-based company said today in an e-mail to Bloomberg News. Probation, after which workers get a higher base salary, was cut to three months from six months, it said.