With the uncertainty of Chinese factories, which have been shut down for a long time due to the COVID-19 pandemic and are at the center of a trade dispute between China and the US, apple seeks to expand its production to other countries such as India. Currently, some Apple products are already being manufactured in Indian factories in Foxconn. Now ArsTehnika notes that both companies were involved in successful lobbying for the weakening of labor laws and an increase in the limit of work shifts in the country.

Apple factories with 12-hour shifts in India

The two companies’ factories are currently operating in China with two-shift production to ensure uninterrupted production. In order to be able to implement similar production in Indian factories, companies were able to negotiate with the government to increase working shift up to 12 hours in an Indian state Karnataka.

In addition, the lobby apple This Foxconn, which also relied on other foreign and Indian IT companies, also managed to change the night work law for women. Despite limiting maximum working hours to 48 hours per week, new legislation increases the number of overtime hours from 75 hours to 145 hours. during three months.

Credits: Reproduction / Foxconn

in contact with ArsTehnikaAn anonymous source in the Indian government stated that “India to be the next major manufacturing huband that the government should “significantly improve our efficiency in terms of increasing the production of work.”

A government official claims that a change in state law Karnataka this came after a “great contribution” from lobbying companies. Despite the fact that companies are not officially talking about changing the law. person close to Foxconn told ArsTechnica that the change “is an important adjustment to create efficient scale production here.”

With this change apple production should be further expanded outside of China. Recently, India’s Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, even announced that the Cupertino giant would build a facility of about 300 acres in Karnataka. But Apple and neither Foxconn confirmed plans for a new plant.

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Source: ArsTechnika

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