20,000 new hires leave Foxconn’s China plantReuters, TAIPEIMore than 20,000 employees at Apple Inc supplier Foxconn Technology Group’s (富士康) huge Chinese plant, mostly new hires not yet working on production lines, have left, a Foxconn source familiar with the matter said yesterday. Concerns are mounting over Apple’s ability to deliver products for the busy holiday period as the worker unrest lingers at the Zhengzhou plant, which produces the US company’s iPhone 14 models. Photo: REUTERSThe departures could complicate Foxconn’s target of resuming full production by the end of this month, after the sometimes violent unrest, the source said. Foxconn on Thursday offered 10,000 yuan (US$1,395) to protesting recruits who agreed to resign and leave the plant. Another Foxconn source familiar with the matter said some new hires had left the campus, but did not elaborate on how many.
