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New Delhi:The Narendra Modi government has asked the Tamil Nadu government for a detailed labour report on Foxconn after a Reuters investigation revealed that the electronics manufacturer deliberately excludes married women from jobs at its iPhone assembly plant in Sriperumbudur...
ThePrint hadearlier reported that unmarried women with graduate degrees are the preferred workforce for electronics manufacturing in Sriperumbudur, and the first question asked at job interviews is whether the prospective candidates are married or not...
Taiwan-headquartered Foxconn, the largest supplier of Apple iPhones, started manufacturing the latest iPhone 15 in Sriperumbudur in 2023, with India participating in the assembly of the latest iPhones for the first time...
At the time, a Tamil Nadu government investigation found several safety risks and multiple labour violations at the Sriperumbudur facility, reported by ThePrint and TIME..
According to the state planning commission data, womens participation in service and manufacturing is extremely high in Tamil Nadu, with 64 percent working in this sector compared to the national average of 43 percent, Gujarats 44 percent, and Maharashtras 35 percent...
