India confirms Apple is responsible for precarious wages at any manufacturing plant

It has not been spoken for a long time, but the truth is that Precarious wage conditions in countries like India put big companies like Apple in the spotlight that increasingly move more production processes to these countries. Apple makes a lot of money from every iPhone it makes, but does it offer a living wage to everyone involved in the production of these devices? Now the government of India has just spoken out about the Apple's responsibility as a company with the low wages of its manufacturing plants in India. Yes, they have full responsibility. Keep reading that we give you all the details of this new controversy with precarious wages in countries like India.

All this comes after a riot at the Wistron factory in Bangalore, India. A riot that led to the stoppage of the iPhone assembly line. It was such that mutinous employees attacked assembly units, smashed windows, and even started a fire inside the plant. Wistron, responsible for the production of the iPhone in India, estimates that these riots have caused a damage of about 60 million dollars to the company. The reason? precarious wages that were never reviewed after meetings between workers and human resources.

"According to the Contract Labor (Regulation and Abolition) Act of 1970, the contractor is responsible for the payment of wages and the main employer is ultimately responsible for it," said one of them. This implies that authorities can seek explanations from both Apple and Wistron.

But as you can see in the previous paragraph, India's labor laws make it clear that after a failure like this between the employees and Wistron, it is Apple, a contractor, who must take over of the situation and accept responsibility. For its part, Apple would be investigating the situation of these workers, they have even paused all contracts with Wistron until this situation is clarified. Something similar to what happened with Pegatron a few months ago after discovering that workers would have been working overtime without being paid, something that led Apple to halt its production at Pegatron for violating Apple's code of conduct.