Foxconn chief defends married women hiring practices in India, aims to set up battery energy storage unit

Sriperumbudur: Foxconn's chairman defended its hiring practices after New Delhi ordered investigations following a news agency Reuters report that claimed the Apple supplier rejects married women from iPhone assembly jobs. However, the company is aiming to set up a battery energy storage system unit in India. "Foxconn hires regardless of gender, but women make up a big part of our workforce Sriperumbudur," Young Liu said during the opening ceremony for a hostel complex for its workers near Chennai in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. "I emphasise married women greatly contribute to the efforts of what we're doing here," he added, making his first comments since the Reuters investigation.