Starting yesterday (October 29), many local governments in Henan wrote letters to local Foxconn staff in Zhengzhou. Today, the matter has been followed by Foxconn response.
Today (October 30), "Zhengzhou Release" issued two messages in a row, announcing that "Foxconn sends three care notices to employees: stay or leave, make good guarantees, and attach the place and phone number to return home", "do your best to ensure that Foxconn employees return home smoothly and safely."
In the latest statement at 6 pm on the 30th, Foxconn told the First Financial reporter that caring for employees is the primary principle of group operations. At present, under the guidance of local governments, the Zhengzhou Park of the Group is continuing to implement epidemic prevention measures, implementing employee care measures such as closed-loop management , point-to-point commuting, daily nucleic acid and antigen screening, free three meals for employees, additional 24-hour care hotlines, volunteer services, etc., and continue to provide employees with the latest epidemic prevention information and publicity.
Foxconn said that Zhengzhou Park cooperates with the government to prevent the epidemic, and the current situation is under gradual control. The group will also coordinate the backup of production capacity in other factories to reduce the possible impact.
What happened to Foxconn?
On October 29, after the First Financial Daily published "Many places in Henan wrote letters to local Foxconn staff in Zhengzhou" and "The local government has dispatched a working group to Foxconn Zhengzhou", today (October 30), Foxconn introduced the current situation in the Zhengzhou factory and stated that it will do its best to ensure the smooth and safe return of Foxconn employees."
"For colleagues in the park, the group will do its best to ensure that the employees will be born under the compliance with the epidemic prevention and production safety standards. The group will do its best to coordinate with local governments to provide employees with necessary supplies and living security; the park is currently in sufficient supply of relevant materials in the park, and will resume normal measures such as dine-in that have been suspended due to epidemic prevention after the epidemic is gradually stabilized to improve the convenience and satisfaction of employees' lives; for some employees who are willing to return home, the park has joined hands with the government to organize personnel and vehicles to provide employees with point-to-point orderly return services from today. "Foxconn said in the latest statement. In the first notice in the "Zhengzhou Release",
shows that Foxconn's intranet issued three notices in succession, and made guarantee arrangements for employees who voluntarily stayed in the company's factory and employees who were willing to return home. "For all employees who voluntarily stayed in the company's factory, the Hong Kong District Government and the company will jointly ensure everyone's normal production and living order, ensure everyone's health, safety, legitimate rights and interests, wages and income, and improve everyone's living and working environment. "Zhengzhou Airport Port Area Management Committee and Foxconn Company will organize personnel and vehicles to serve everyone. "After consultation with the Hong Kong District Government, the government will send buses to deliver returning people to their destinations from this afternoon." The second notice of
further declared, "This round of epidemic spreads quickly, but the virus load is low. As of now, no severe infection has occurred in the Foxconn factory, and the epidemic is generally controllable. "
As early as two weeks ago, Foxconn Zhengzhou Science and Technology Park had begun to strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures.
Foxconn Zhengzhou Science and Technology Park issued an announcement at 20:14 pm on October 18, adjusting the second-line gate control and nucleic acid testing time, saying that from 9:00 that night, employees/manufacturers only have one district authority, and can go to and from get off work normally from 4:00 to 9:00 every morning and 16:00 to 2 in the evening, and control the nucleic acid testing time. The nucleic acid testing time is also divided into day night shifts, day shifts are 7:00 to 10:00 in the morning, and night shifts are 19:00 to 2 in the evening. 2 o'clock.
On October 19, the park further issued an announcement stating that in order to cooperate with the government's epidemic prevention measures, dining venues have been cancelled. All employees of Zhengzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone have returned to dinner from 15:00 on October 19. The company will provide free three meals a day for employees attending business groups in Zhengzhou Park.
Not only that, in this notice, Foxconn made very detailed regulations on the behavior of employees, requiring employees to "simplify their personal itinerary, dormitory (dwelling), and park at two points and one line, reduce unnecessary itinerary trajectories, and enter the factory. You must provide a 24-hour nucleic acid negative certificate before you can enter the second-line gate."You must wear N95 masks throughout the process when working in the park. It is strictly forbidden to take off your masks in the factory or on the road. You can only take off your masks after entering your dormitory. "When working at the station, do quick hand disinfection once an hour, wash hands before and after going to the toilet, drink water, and carry out hand disinfection. After use, masks, gloves, disinfectant wipes, etc. must be put into medical waste trash cans (yellow barrels). After work, 75% alcohol disinfection wipes should be used to wipe and disinfect the desk boards, conveyor belts, countertops, tray tools, and seats of the station. It also pointed out that "working with illness is never allowed."
In the announcement on October 21, the park specifically reminded employees, "Drinking Chinese medicine on time to enhance physical fitness, and reporting symptoms in a timely manner."
On October 24, the park issued a notice announcing the 24-hour closing Love hotline, iDPBG business group and iPEBG business group (including glass group) have special hotlines, and a separate 24-hour psychological counseling hotline is also set up, including 3 people on day shift and 2 people on night shift.
On October 26, Foxconn issued another notice, announcing that in order to alleviate the pressure of medical treatment in the park, the Social Health Center of Zhengzhou First People's Hospital has launched an online consultation and provided a process for employees to deal with medicines when they have fever. If employees need medicines, they can place orders on the online platform or community consultation channels, and the general affairs will arrange volunteer delivery.
said that they will respect employees. Personal willingness to go through the resignation procedures
As of the time of publication, many places in Henan, including Yuzhou City, Henan Province, Changge City , Qinyang City , Xihua County , Lushan County , Weidu District, Xuchang City, Zhanhe District, Pingdingshan City, etc., have issued a letter to local Foxconn staff in Zhengzhou, stating that local household registration employees have been prepared to return to their hometowns. All localities have stated that those who really need to return home must report in advance and implement "point-to-point" services and corresponding isolation measures.
According to Foxconn The employee told reporters that in the morning, the "docking buses" from many regions in Henan have already stopped at designated locations to pick up and drop off fellow villagers working in Foxconn, Zhengzhou, who are native to the local area, and go home.
Qian Shan (pseudonym), an employee who works in the Zhengzhou Port Area of Foxconn, told reporters that Foxconn does not currently have restrictions on travel for returning people, but requires people who need to return home to register.
In a registration form obtained by the reporter, "(Foxconn) company adheres to the principle of respecting the personal wishes of employees. If any employee wants to leave the road and return home, they can take leave or apply for resignation procedures. After the procedures were completed, the government arranged nucleic acid testing and coordinated transportation to pick up and drop everyone back home by point-to-point. For specific procedures, please refer to the employee’s process notification form (returning home). For employees to register their willingness to return home, please fill in carefully and ensure the accuracy of the information so that you can contact you quickly. "
On October 28, Foxconn Zhengzhou Science and Technology Park official account issued a "Letter to All Colleagues". The article mentioned: Regarding the inclusion of employees in the closed loop of Waisu employees: employees moved back to the dormitory area from Zhangzhuang and Waisu hotels according to their personal wishes, and built an epidemic prevention and safety bubble in Zhengzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
Foxconn stated that point-to-point commuting includes Yukangnan, Shanding, Huahong, Fuxin, Xinrong, Gangcheng, Zaoyuan, and Fuhang Apartments walking point-to-point commuting; Yukangbei, Yuhong, and Tiancheng dormitory shuttle buses point-to-point commuting. In addition, according to the government's epidemic prevention and control measures and closed loop management requirements, if there are colleagues during the epidemic prevention period If you want to leave the job or want to leave the closed loop and return home, you must first go to the government centralized isolation point for quarantine for 7 days and provide medical health certificate before you can leave Hong Kong and return home (special groups such as mothers, pregnant women, disabled people will coordinate with the government to handle the job). The company absolutely respects the personal wishes of employees, and all business groups must handle the normal resignation procedures for employees in accordance with the regulations.
Qian Shan said that her production line is a product that produces mobile phone back shell products, and many people have walked around. "Generally, just look at the industrial brand and photos and you can leave. What I heard now is that you can (make up) the basic salary when you come back within three months to handle resigning. ”
According to her, the production line in her park is not suspended at present. The employees need to inspect twice a day. Those who show abnormalities will be transferred to a place called "Evergrande's Future Light". In the second close contact in the dormitory, Foxconn provides foods including bread, milk and other foods.What is the impact of
Apple production line?
As Apple's largest production base in the world, the impact of the epidemic on supply chains such as Foxconn has also affected the sales trend of Apple's mobile phones. Apple has nearly 10,000 directly affiliated employees in China and millions of workers in its supply chain.
In October this year, Apple announced the 2021 supply chain list. Currently, there are as many as 190 Apple suppliers worldwide, and there are more than 50 suppliers in mainland China alone, making it the largest supply area for Apple. It is currently the peak season for Apple sales.
From the perspective of production capacity layout, Zhengzhou Foxconn has three factory areas in the local area, namely Zhengzhou Airport factory area, Economic and Technological Development Zone factory area, and Zhongmu County factory area. The Zhengzhou factory is also Foxconn's main manufacturing base for Apple to produce iPhone , with more than 90 production lines and about 300,000 workers. IDC data shows that in 2019, China's smartphone exports accounted for 27% of global smartphone sales, of which 1/4 of the exports came from Henan Province, and Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory accounted for more than 60% of Henan's total trade volume.
In January 2022, Zhengzhou Customs released information saying that in 2021, the total value of Henan's foreign trade import and export reached 820.81 billion yuan, and increased by 22.9% year-on-year, 1.5 percentage points higher than the national import and export growth rate. The import and export of mechanical and electrical products dominated by the mobile phone industry chain accounted for more than 60% of the province's foreign trade. Among them, the total export volume of mobile phones alone reached 272.72 billion yuan, an increase of 17.8% year-on-year, accounting for 28.9% of the country.
On October 27, Apple released its fourth quarter results report for the 2022 fiscal year ended September 24. According to the financial report, Apple's fourth-quarter revenue was US$90.146 billion, an increase of 8.1% year-on-year, higher than the market's expectations of US$88.9 billion, setting a record for the quarter from July to September; its net profit was US$20.71 billion, an increase of 0.83% year-on-year.
Apple has not responded to Foxconn's current situation as of press time.
attached Foxconn Technology Group statement
2022.10.30
In response to the epidemic situation in Zhengzhou park, Foxconn Technology Group explained it as follows:
1. We know very well that under the current epidemic situation, how to provide good care and security for more than 200,000 employees in the park is a "protracted war". We have also paid attention to the outside world's concern for Foxconn and are asking all sectors to provide understanding and support.
2. Caring for employees is the primary principle of group operations. At present, under the guidance of local governments, the Zhengzhou Park of the Group is continuing to implement epidemic prevention measures, implementing closed-loop management, point-to-point commuting, daily nucleic acid and antigen screening, providing employees with three meals for free, adding 24-hour care hotlines, volunteer services and other employee care measures, and continue to provide employees with the latest epidemic prevention information and publicity.
3. For colleagues in the park, the group will make every effort to ensure the safety and health care of employees in compliance with the epidemic prevention and production safety standards; the group will do its best to continuously coordinate with the local government to provide employees with necessary supplies and living security; at present, the relevant materials in the park are sufficient, and after the epidemic gradually stabilizes, normal measures such as dine-in that were suspended due to epidemic prevention will be restored to improve the convenience and satisfaction of employees' lives; for some employees who are willing to return home, the park has joined hands with the government to organize personnel and vehicles to provide employees with point-to-point orderly return services from today.
4. Zhengzhou Park and the government cooperate with epidemic prevention, and the situation is currently under control. The group will also coordinate production capacity backup in other factories to reduce the possible impact.
