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NEWS > TECHNOLOGY > APPLE LOOKING TO REDUCE WAGES, AGES, FOR WORKERS BUILDING IPHONES
APPLE LOOKING TO REDUCE WAGES, AGES, FOR WORKERS BUILDING IPHONES
January 18 2012
Cupertino, CA – There’s an old adage in business that the only thing better than money is more money. For Apple that saying has become mantra in recent years as, over the last decade, the company has gone from a languishing has-been to one of the biggest companies on the planet, making a whole lot of people wealthy in the process.
It hasn’t been all about the money, of course. Apple’s entry into things like digital music, cell phones, and new computers has been innovative and possibly revolutionary. They have shifted the market and continued to push the information age ever forward. Apple has been important for communications, though getting a whole lot of money doing it hasn’t been so bad either.
In October Apple, and much of the business world, mourned the death of S1teve Jobs, the man who founded the company and brought it to its current state of domination, the many who made Apple what it is today. Jobs was quite rightly mourned. Without him Apple would have fallen away, a memory, but like all businesses Jobs didn’t do it alone. He and the company depended, and still do, on the average worker to make things function, and like most big companies that is the first place they try to scrape together a little extra cash, something the company is looking to do in China by reducing the wages and ages of the people who make their products.
“The market is becoming more and more competitive and we have to adapt like any
company. We understand that there are issues at the facilities in China and we are working to reduce those incidents. We have forced the companies involved to install nets to stop suicides and provide stools which really helps with people collapsing from exhaustion. Unfortunately we have little choice but to clamp down in other areas, in order to remain competitive,” said an Apple insider. “We have too many older workers who demand far too much money and always want to go home. By decreasing the ages of the workers we reduce the obligations they have and thus can keep them working longer and at lower rates of pay which will do wonders for our bottom line, which is ultimately the goal.”
Officially Foxconn, the company which manufactures products for Apple and other companies such as Sony and Microsoft, have no employees under the age of 15, something Apple is desperate to change.
“We have found that lower age limits on workers make companies more inclined to 
hire young employees. There are risks, minimal to be sure, of government interference if young workers are found. By reducing the working age we can bring on younger employees legally and thus keep the older workers out of the process entirely. It reduces the risk of trouble,” continued the insider. “That in turn will make our shareholders and customers much happier. We feel that we are close to achieving that and in the process make the environments safer for all these new workers. In the last few months there have been very few suicides and no incidents with people bleeding from the eyes and ears, and we are very proud of that.”
Foxconn’s internal policy states that no workers younger than 10-years old should be employed, citing a too strong a desire to play by younger workers.
Martin Philton, Technology Correspondent
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