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**illiderob** · 06-04-2010, 05:30 PM

Jun 4, 2010
Foxconn death not work related

The company announced on Wednesday a 30 per cent pay raise for workers to help create a better working environment where employees can reduce overtime work and have more time for leisure. -- PHOTO: AFP

TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S Foxconn Technology Group, which has been shaken by a spate of worker suicides in China this year, said on Friday another employee had died but denied it was work-related. The maker of iPhones, iPads and other electronic gadgets for global corporations including Apple Inc said the 28-year-old engineer died 'a sudden death' last week at his home near Foxconn's Shenzhen plant in China's southern Guangdong province.

The cause of the death was being investigated and 'we have found nothing to support any allegation that it was work-related,' the company said in a statement. Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper reported on Wednesday that relatives claimed the engineer died of work stress, having worked 34 hours without a break shortly before his collapse.

The company announced on Wednesday a 30 per cent pay raise for workers to help create a better working environment where employees can reduce overtime work and have more time for leisure. Labour activists accuse the company of having a rigid management style, an excessively fast assembly line and forced overwork, allegations that Foxconn denies. Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou has promised to work harder to prevent more deaths. -- AP

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illiderob Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 485 Senior Member	Jun 4, 2010 Foxconn death not work related The company announced on Wednesday a 30 per cent pay raise for workers to help create a better working environment where employees can reduce overtime work and have more time for leisure. -- PHOTO: AFP TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S Foxconn Technology Group, which has been shaken by a spate of worker suicides in China this year, said on Friday another employee had died but denied it was work-related. The maker of iPhones, iPads and other electronic gadgets for global corporations including Apple Inc said the 28-year-old engineer died 'a sudden death' last week at his home near Foxconn's Shenzhen plant in China's southern Guangdong province. The cause of the death was being investigated and 'we have found nothing to support any allegation that it was work-related,' the company said in a statement. Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper reported on Wednesday that relatives claimed the engineer died of work stress, having worked 34 hours without a break shortly before his collapse. The company announced on Wednesday a 30 per cent pay raise for workers to help create a better working environment where employees can reduce overtime work and have more time for leisure. Labour activists accuse the company of having a rigid management style, an excessively fast assembly line and forced overwork, allegations that Foxconn denies. Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou has promised to work harder to prevent more deaths. -- AP
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