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The Fair Labor Association audit in 2012 used interviews with 35,000 Foxconn employees. [142] In January 2012, about 150 Foxconn employees threatened to commit a mass suicide in protest of their working conditions. [147] One worker said the protest resulted from 600 workers being moved into a new "unbearable" factory location. [148]
Terry Gou (Chinese: 郭台銘; pinyin: Guō Táimíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koeh Tâi-bêng; born 18 October 1950) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and politician. Gou is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics. [1]
Foxconn informed the writers that they were taking extra steps for the future; which included safety netting and more help hotlines for employees to be able to call. [39] The chairman of Foxconn, Terry Gou, made the following statement at a press conference focused on the controversy: "We are certainly not running a sweatshop. We are confident ...
TAIPEI/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that rose to global prominence as the manufacturer of the Apple iPhone, is trying to reinvent itself as smartphone ...
A self-made, septuagenarian billionaire with a net worth of $6.8 billion, the 72-year-old Gou founded Foxconn, established as Hon Hai Precision Industry in Taiwan in 1974.
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, resigned as a company board member, the Taiwanese company said on Saturday, less than a week after announcing a bid to be the ...
In 2009 Sun Danyong, an employee of electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group, committed suicide. [7] Reports emerged of questionable labour practices at Foxconn factories, [8] and a number of other suicides occurred in 2010. Foxconn announced that workers with a monthly wage of 900 RMB ($131.77 at the time) would immediately receive a ...
Foxconn is facing a tax probe in China, two sources close to the company said on Monday, confirming a report in China's state-backed Global Times. Taiwan frontrunner assails China as Foxconn probe ...