Daily wages for employees, who are part of a Foxconn unit responsible for making electronics including smartphones at the site, have been raised to ¥100 (US$13.70) between Oct 26 to Nov 11, the Henan Daily newspaper cited an unnamed head of the firm’s integrated digital product business group unit saying yesterday.

The company, formally Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, is also giving all employees at the site who have attended work as normal since Oct 19 and complied with virus prevention measures a bonus of ¥50 a day, the person said.

Foxconn did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Henan Daily article. The Henan Daily is the official newspaper of the province of Henan, of which Zhengzhou is the capital.

Foxconn is Apple’s biggest iPhone maker, producing 70% of iPhone shipments globally. It makes most of the phones at the Zhengzhou plant where it employs about 200,000 people, though it has other smaller production sites in India and south China.

The Zhengzhou plant has been rocked by discontent over stringent measures to curb the spread of Covid-19, with several workers fleeing the site over the weekend.

Reuters reported yesterday, citing a source, that November production of iPhones could slump by as much as 30% at the plant due to the situation and that Foxconn was working to boost production at another factory in Shenzhen city to make up for the shortfall.