{"id":49860,"date":"2022-11-01T16:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/china-iphone-factory-quadruples-bonuses-to-workers-amid-anger-over-covid-curbs"},"modified":"2022-11-01T16:01:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:01:18","slug":"china-iphone-factory-quadruples-bonuses-to-workers-amid-anger-over-covid-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49860","title":{"rendered":"China iPhone factory quadruples bonuses to workers amid anger over Covid curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple supplier Foxconn raises daily bonuses to $55 to ease discontent after strict Covid measures prompted some workers to flee the site<\/p>\n<p>Apple supplier Foxconn said it has quadrupled bonuses on offer for workers at its Zhengzhou plant in central China as it seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/30\/china-braces-for-wave-of-workers-fleeing-iphone-factory-in-covid-hit-zhengzhou\">quell discontent over Covid curbs<\/a> and retain staff at the giant iPhone manufacturing site.<\/p>\n<p>Daily bonuses for employees, who are part of a Foxconn unit responsible for making electronics including smartphones at the site, have been raised to 400 yuan ($55) a day for November from 100 yuan, according to the official WeChat account of Foxconn\u2019s Zhengzhou plant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/01\/china-iphone-factory-quadruples-bonuses-to-workers-amid-anger-over-covid-curbs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple supplier Foxconn raises daily bonuses to $55 to ease discontent after strict Covid measures prompted some workers to flee the siteApple supplier Foxconn said it has quadrupled bonuses on offer for workers at its Zhengzhou plant in central China a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,1066,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49861,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49860\/revisions\/49861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}