According to Reuters, married women were deliberately not hired a facility that assembles iPhones in India. This won't be the first such incident for Apple.
Apple — and its contract manufacturer, Foxconn — don’t have a particularly stellar track record with labor rights and affording workers the best conditions to make arguably the most premium products in their respective segments. According to a fresh investigation, the hiring practices at the Foxconn unit that assembles iPhones in India discriminated against married women, citing reasons like women “have babies after marriage” and “many issues post-marriage.
In November 2020, China Labor Watch also unearthed stories of “labor rights violations, including forced overtime, recruitment discrimination, and sexual harassment” at Foxconn’s Chengdu facility. Another story by Rest of World highlighted the problem of low salaries that were “barely enough to cover rent and food costs.” As per the latest Reuters report, women were systematically left out of the hiring process at Foxconn’s iPhone factory.
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