The Indian government has brought a descriptive report from Tamil Nadu state following media reports that Apple supplier Foxconn was blamed for disapproving of married women for iPhone assembly jobs.
A Reuters inquiry alleged that Foxconn had disposed married women from employment at its main India iPhone plant near Chennai, mentioning their enormous family duties in comparison to single women.
The federal labour ministry claims the law “clearly stipulates that no discrimination (is) to be made while recruiting men and women workers”.
Neither Tamil Nadu nor the Apple state government replied to permissions for comment from Reuters.
The BBC has also arrived at Foxconn and the Tamil Nadu labour sector for a reply.
Foxconn, the enormous supplier of Apple iPhones, built up its first industry in Tamil Nadu in 2017 but has since been extremely widening its procedures in India.
In 2023, it started gathering up the iPhone 15 in the country and sooner this year, Foxconn tied up with Google to build Pixel smartphones in Tamil Nadu.
Rights activists claim the reports about the enterprise’s employing policies in India are focusing, mentioning that numerous people see to its enterprises for job facilities.
Reuters claimed it transverse to many workers and Foxconn employing companies for the story.
The report claimed that employing agents and Foxconn HR sources” cited family duties, pregnancy and higher absenteeism as reasons why Foxconn did not hire married women at the plant”.
For its employing policies, it is not the very first time, that enterprise has underviewed.
In 2018, a US-based rights activist blamed the enterprise for overloading and paying short-term employees at its enterprise in China that produced goods for Amazon.
In 2022, its iPhone enterprise in China looked march by employees who stated that they were not given proper dues and payments.