The contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn employs thousands of workers who build devices for the likes of Apple. In an investigation that began in early 2023, Reuters journalists Praveen Paramasivam, Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra found that Foxconn has routinely excluded married women from jobs at its iPhone assembly plant in southern India, on the grounds they have more family responsibilities than their unmarried counterparts.
The story centers on the Foxconn factory near the city of Chennai. It includes accounts of current and former Foxconn HR executives, job seekers, and Foxconn's third-party hiring vendors. Foxconn typically doesn't hire married women at the plant because of cultural and societal issues, including that married women have children, according to S. Paul, a former Foxconn HR executive.
The ban isn't absolute. Reuters reporting found that Foxconn relaxes its practice of not hiring married women during high-production periods.
While Indian law doesn't bar companies from discriminating in hiring based on marital status, Apple's and Foxconn's policies prohibit such practice in their supply chains. Both companies told Reuters they do not stand for discrimination, while acknowledging lapses in hiring practices in 2022 which they said they had worked to address.
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