30% wage rise at ‘suicide’ firm

TAIWANESE technology giant Foxconn, battling to stem a spate of factory suicides in China, said it was raising the pay of its Chinese workers by 30%.

The pay raise took effect immediately, said an official at Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai Precision, which said last week it was considering a hike of at least 20% from the basic monthly pay of 900 yuan (€107).

Ten workers at a giant Foxconn plant in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have fallen to their deaths in apparent suicides this year.

An 11th worker died at another factory in northern China.