{"id":6151,"date":"2010-05-25T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"eleventh-foxcon-employee-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/6151-eleventh-foxcon-employee-commits-suicide","title":{"rendered":"Eleventh Foxcon employee commits suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese hardware manufacturer Foxcon has been getting some bad press lately, following a series employees killing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to curb &nbsp;the bad publicity, the CEO Guo Tai-mingame forward to refute claims that their factory is a &ldquo;sweatshop.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after his announcement, another employee jumped from a window in the building, bringing the tally up to 11.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 19 year old male had only been working at Foxcon for 42 days, and it is assumed that he voluntarily ended his own life by jumping from a window.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In defending Foxcon, the company&rsquo;s CEO stated that it&rsquo;s very difficult to handle its 800,000 strong workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There have previously been reports of the factory&rsquo;s harsh working conditions, and of security gaurds beating employees. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?6059-Another-Foxconn-employee-jumps-from-factory-window&amp;p=228325#post228325\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Foxconn suicides<\/a> in the forums<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxcon employee suicides continue <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}