Indian government investigates after report claims Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn 'systematically' excludes married women.
The report cited a former human-resources executive at Foxconn India as saying executives verbally conveyed the recruitment rules to hiring agencies who were tasked with the recruitment process.
Some women said that when arriving for job interviews they were stopped at the plant's gate by a security officer who asked if they were married, and turned them away if they said they were.
Indian federal law prohibits discrimination in recruitment.
Foxconn established its first Tamil Nadu plant in 2017 and has been aggressively expanding operations in the country as Apple and other tech firms seek to diversify production away from China.
The company began producing the iPhone 15 in the state last year and began making Google Pixel smartphones there earlier this year.
The issues reported by Reuters allegedly took place in 2023 and 2024.
Foxconn's biggest plant in China was disrupted by worker protests in late 2022 as it struggled to maintain iPhone production amidst a Covid-19 outbreak.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 07:43:08 +0000