Foxconn Charging More to Offset Price of Keeping Employees From Killing Themselves [Foxconn]

Foxconn, ever-classy manufacturer to the celebs, was considering raising prices to offset the price of paying its overworked, suicide-prone employees a good wage. Now we comprehend it’s happening, despite an iPhone-boosted 30% increase in sales.

You see, Foxconn wouldn’t would like to must pay its employees, who are literally killing themselves because their working conditions are so poor, an honest wage without taking successful themselves-in order that they’re passing the fee on to their clients, and, perhaps indirectly, you. This need to have been one hell of a heartwarming shareholders meeting. [ Reuters via CrunchGear ]

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