- Thursday, February 27, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
FOXCONN, the supplier of Apple Inc, is unlikely to resume its closed iPhone manufacturing facility in southern India until Friday (7), an informed senior government official told Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
The plant, which is located close to Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was shut on December 18 in the wake of protests after more than 250 of its workers were treated for food poisoning.
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Apple put the plant on probation after finding that some dormitories and dining rooms at the factory did not meet required standards.
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The Taiwan-based company, which is officially called Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., told the state government that it was working to address Apple’s concerns over the workers’ living conditions, the official said.
“Foxconn is still working with Apple to ensure compliance, which they expect to take up to two days. Bringing back workers could also more than a day,” the official said, adding that the Tamil Nadu government had cleared resuming the plant for production.
Officials at a couple of recruitment agencies contracted by Foxconn to hire workers said the company did not contact them over the resumption of the production, the Reuters report said, adding that two workers at the factory also said the same.
