Foxconn ends consolation payments for suicides
News Mobile & Telco
Taiwan's richest bloke, Hon Hai Group chairman Terry Gou has come up with another cunning ruse to stop his workers topping themselves. After planning to install nets around his iPhone-making Foxconn plants to catch the falling bodies, and then offering to hike wages by a stunning 70 per cent, Gou seems to have finally cottoned on to a plan which may finally reduce the death toll and also appease stock holders. Gou yesterday announced a new policy of not making...
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