{"id":845709,"date":"2024-08-19T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=845709"},"modified":"2024-08-19T09:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:51:48","slug":"foxconn-chief-defends-hiring-practices-after-report-married-women-rejected-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/19\/foxconn-chief-defends-hiring-practices-after-report-married-women-rejected-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn chief defends hiring practices after report married women rejected in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxconn\u2019s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFoxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,\u201d Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI emphasise married women greatly contribute to the efforts of what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d he added, making his first comments since the Reuters investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxconn\u2019s chairman on Saturday defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a Reuters report that the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. \u201cFoxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce here,\u201d Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. \u201cI emphasise married women greatly contribute to the efforts of what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d he added, making his first comments since the Reuters investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845709","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}