Migrants elbow for Foxconn jobs despite labor probe – Business LIVE

Apple’s top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm’s reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices.

On a smoggy day in a gritty industrial suburb of Shenzhen, thousands of job seekers, many migrant workers from the countryside, massed outside the north gate of Foxconn’s gargantuan factory at Longhua, taking part in an epic recruitment drive to supply factory hands to meet relentless production quotas for iPhones and iPads globally.

As police sealed off roads in the area, recruiters lined up the young men in ranks, peppering them with questions before shepherding small groups into a building to register and undergo physical and psychometric tests.

“As you can see, everyone wants a job here,” said Wang Jintao, a 19-year-old from central Hubei province. “I’ve been coming here every day for two weeks now. Perhaps today will be my lucky day.”

The thousands of migrants now flocking daily to Foxconn’s recruitment center at Longhua is a sharp contrast to other smaller factories in southern China that have competed viciously to find workers since the Lunar New Year holidays in late January.

via Migrants elbow for Foxconn jobs despite labor probe – Business LIVE.

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