The Apple supplier has ordered hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender and marital criteria as well as the manufacturer's name in job advertisements.

Foxconn's Indian recruiters previously allowed only unmarried women of a specific age to be eligible for the iPhone manufacturing plant. This requirement has now been removed following investigations.

Months after Foxconn has now directed its recruiting agents to align their advertisements without specifications of gender and such in India

Foxconn revamps hiring policies in India, removing marital status requirements from job ads after allegations of discrimination against married women at its Tamil Nadu iPhone assembly plant.

Chennai/IBNS: Apple supplier Foxconn has instructed its recruitment agencies in India to eliminate references to age, gender, marital status, and the company name in job advertisements, Reuters reported,

Foxconn, a leading supplier for Apple, has implemented significant changes to its hiring practices in India. The move comes after a Reuters investigation in June 2023 uncovered discriminatory recruitment criteria at Foxconn's main iPhone assembly plant in Sriperumbudur,

By Munsif Vengattil, Praveen Paramasivam and Aditya KalraSRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) - Apple supplier Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age,

Apple supplier Foxconn has directed its recruitment agents in the country to remove age, gender, marital status criteria, and the company's name from .

Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn has reportedly told its various recruitment partners to cease putting conditions about marital status and other issues in job ads for the company.

Apple iPhone maker Foxconn reportedly ordered its Indian hiring vendors to remove certain job criteria such as age, gender, and marital status from the advertisement. The company did not comment on whether or not it had ended restrictions on employment norms.

Foxconn, which employs thousands of women at the iPhone factory at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, has outsourced recruitment of assembly-line workers to third-party vendors.