Foxconn Doesn't Hire Married Women At Chennai Plant? Centre Seeks Report
NDTV
A Reuters investigation has found that Foxconn systematically excluded married women from jobs at its main India iPhone plant near Chennai.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Wednesday said it has asked the Tamil Nadu government to submit a "detailed report" after a Reuters story revealed that Apple supplier Foxconn rejected married women from iPhone assembly jobs in the country.
In a statement calling for the probe, the Ministry of Labour and Employment cited the Equal Remuneration Act of 1976, saying the law "clearly stipulates that no discrimination (is) to be made while recruiting men and women workers."
The ministry said it has requested a detailed report from the Labour Department of Tamil Nadu, site of a major iPhone factory where Reuters uncovered Foxconn's practice of shunning married women from jobs.
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