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Ahead of Apple’s iPhone 13 launch, supplier Foxconn woos workers with record-high cash bonuses

  • Foxconn is offering a signing bonus worth up to US$1,237 to former workers willing to return to its production line in Zhengzhou for the peak season
  • Apple’s new iPhone 13 line is expected to be launched in the third week of September

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A woman holds her smartphone as she passes an Apple Store promoting the iPhone 12 in Beijing on February 24, 2021. Apple supplier Foxconn Technology Group is now bolstering production capacity at the world’s largest iPhone factory in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Photo: AP
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The world’s largest iPhone factory, located in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, is offering record-high cash rewards for workers, especially experienced hands, to sign on as Foxconn Technology Group ramps up its production capacity in a fresh sign of China’s central role in Apple’s global supply chain.

As part of its “biggest raise in the past five years”, Foxconn said the unit that produces mechanical parts for the iPhone – called innovative Product Enclosure Business Group (iPEBG) – is offering up to 8,000 yuan (US$1,237) as signing bonus to former workers willing to return to the Zhengzhou production line for the peak season, a jump from 5,500 yuan a month ago and 5,000 yuan in 2020, according to recruitment posts published on Monday by the Taiwan-based company, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

This year’s bonus range for returning workers is the highest since the factory started operations in 2010, according to the South China Morning Post’s review of past recruitment advertisements from Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry.

New iPEBG workers who get hired based on a current employee’s referral will get a 7,000 yuan bonus, up from 4,500 yuan in April. Referrers receive 1,000 yuan for each successful referral they make. Meanwhile, each new worker who successfully applied by themselves get a 7,500 yuan bonus.

Outside one of Foxconn Technology Group’s recruitment centres in Zhengzhou, applicants who passed the interview process line up to be taken by bus to another site for physical examination. Photo: SCMP
Outside one of Foxconn Technology Group’s recruitment centres in Zhengzhou, applicants who passed the interview process line up to be taken by bus to another site for physical examination. Photo: SCMP

Workers will receive their bonuses after working for iPEBG for four months and staying until the end of the peak season, according to the posts.

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