Foxconn to Hike Wages in Chinese Factory

Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer of iPhone supplies, said on Sunday that production-line workers in its Southern China factory would receive a 66 percent performance-based pay increase as the company deals with international fallout due to more than 10 documented worker suicides.

The pay hike to go into effect on Oct. 1, is on top of a previous 30 percent pay increase instituted last week. “We are working diligently to ensure that our workplace standards and remuneration not only continue to meet the rapidly changing needs of our employees, but that they are best in class,” according to a company statement.

Both Apple, which contracts Foxconn, as well as the company itself, have stated that the factory in the Guangdong Province is not a sweatshop. Apple has begun its own investigation over Foxconn’s manufacturing processes.