{"id":828390,"date":"2024-07-02T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=828390"},"modified":"2024-07-02T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:50:51","slug":"nhrc-issues-notice-to-centre-tamil-nadu-government-over-serious-issue-of-discrimination-at-foxconns-iphone-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/02\/nhrc-issues-notice-to-centre-tamil-nadu-government-over-serious-issue-of-discrimination-at-foxconns-iphone-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRC issues notice to Centre, Tamil Nadu government over \u201cserious issue of discrimination\u201d at Foxconn\u2019s iPhone factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the central government and Tamil Nadu state authorities following reports of discriminatory hiring practices at Foxconn&#8217;s biggest iPhone manufacturing plant in the country near Chennai. The commission&#8217;s action comes in response to a Reuters investigation that uncovered systematic exclusion of married women from assembly line jobs at the facility.<br \/>\n&#8220;NHRC observes that the matter, if true, raises a serious issue of discrimination against married women causing the violation of the right to equality and equal opportunity,&#8221; the commission stated as quoted by PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the central government and Tamil Nadu state authorities following reports of discriminatory hiring practices at Foxconn&#8217;s biggest iPhone manufacturing plant in the country near Chennai. The commission&#8217;s action comes in response to a Reuters investigation that uncovered systematic exclusion of married women from assembly line jobs at the facility. &#8220;NHRC observes that the matter, if true, raises a serious issue of discrimination against married women causing the violation of the right to equality and equal opportunity,&#8221; the commission stated as quoted by PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}