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Foxconn cuts 50K contract workers early amid iPhone sales slump

2019 January 18
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Foxconn has been forced to cut contract workers early amid iPhone sales slump, reports Nikkei. Citing an industry source familiar with the situation, the outlet says around 50,000 seasonal employees have been let go since October at the company’s top iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China.

Around 50,000 contract workers have been let go since October at Foxconn Technology Group’s most important iPhone factory at Zhengzhou, in China’s Henan Province, according to an industry source familiar with the situation. Normally, the contracts of these workers would be renewed every month from August until mid- to late January, when the workforce is traditionally scaled back for the slow iPhone production season.

The scale of the cuts is not necessarily deeper than previous years, it is simply significantly earlier, industry sources said. “It’s quite different this year to ask assembly line workers to leave before the year-end,” a source with knowledge of Foxconn’s reductions said.

Nikkei adds that other important Apple suppliers have been forced into early reductions as well, including Pegatron—Apple’s second largest iPhone assembler—and a key component supplier based in Shenzhen. The latter asked 4,000+ workers to take an “extended vacation” from October to March.

Apple shocked the market earlier this month when it dropped its revenue projections for the holiday quarter by more than $5 billion. And with the overall decline of the smartphone market, and the growing U.S.-China trade war, industry watchers are expecting these supplier struggles to continue.

Source: Nikkei

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