Foxconn Zhengzhou plant offers bonuses to encourage workers to return

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Apple supplier Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant on Monday kicked off a fresh recruitment drive seeking workers, saying that it would offer staff who had left in recent weeks a one-off bonus of 500 yuan ($69.28) should they return.

New workers will be offered a salary of 30 yuan ($4.16) per hour, according to a statement posted on Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iDPBG recruitment WeChat account.

Foxconn’s Integrated Digital Product Business Group is a unit responsible for making electronics including smartphones.

($1 = 7.2174 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Brenda Goh; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)