Employee worked to death at Apple plant

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Foxconn refuses to pay family of employee who died of exhaustion after 34-hour shift as it wasn't suicide
http://www.dailytech.com/Employee+Worke ... e18591.htm
Since the start of the year, 11 Shenzhen workers have committed suicide, while several more have made unsuccessful attempts. The string of suicides have brought to light the poor working conditions that the employees toil under daily.

Hon Hai Precision Industry owns the Foxconn unit that operates the plant. The company has tried many approaches to stop the suicides -- Buddhist monks, "anger rooms", even contracts asking employees to promise not to kill themselves. However, the death toll has continued to rise.

Foxconn's latest bid to halt the death toll is to give employees a long promised raise. The company just instituted a 30 percent pay bump at the Shenzhen facility, bringing workers' average starting wage from $132 USD a month to $172 USD per month, enough to buy one of the iPad Nanos they manufacture (after a month's work).

The raise is rumored to be subsidized by Apple. Apple reportedly is taking a 0.7 percent loss on the iPad's cost to pay for the raise -- or rough $3.50 per iPad sold. This means that Apple's profit per unit sold will like drop from around $200 to around $196 per Wi-Fi iPad sold.

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iSeppuku FTL

And wait one damn minute

wage from $132 USD a month to $172 USD per month, enough to buy one of the iPad Nanos they manufacture (after a month's work).

172-130 = 42 ... THEY ONLY COST $42!

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iSeppuku FTL

And wait one damn minute

wage from $132 USD a month to $172 USD per month, enough to buy one of the iPad Nanos they manufacture (after a month's work).

172-130 = 42 ... THEY ONLY COST $42!

I would not know.
I don't buy Apple products.