Apple speaks out after suicides at subcontractor Foxconn

You have probably already read the name ofFoxconnin our
articles, cited in particular when talking aboutthe manufacture of
iPhone. Indeed, the firm "Hon Hai Group" from its Asian name is a
subcontractor of the IT and technology industry which counts
for Apple customers but also HP, Nokia or Sonyand who does not use
less than800,000 people in China.

She is under fire for criticism and questions relating toto
working conditions, schedules and pressure following a wave of
suicides which affected its employees.

According to
This itemApple, through its spokesperson Steve Dowling,
expressed on the subject, indicating that they were in contact with the management of
society, that they were going to evaluate the actions taken to prevent this from
occurs again as well as continuing inspections of factories or their products
are done. Other statement "We are saddened and upset by the recent
suicides at Foxconn"

Hp, for its part, is investigating Foxconn's practices in connection with
these suicides.

Finally, anxious to manage the crisis, the CEO of Foxconn showed him around the
factories (and the swimming pool) to journalists and explains that the conditions of
work at home areless worse than elsewhere in China, see

the Engadget article on the subject.

I think we can all agree that it is indeed
capitalwhatFoxconn client companies
are committed to ensuring that working conditions improve as much as possible
quickly, evenif this has to happen through lower prices
negotiated!

On the same subject,
the "Reuters" article.