Exploitative jobs prevalent in India’s mobile phone industry

Phony Equality – Labour standards of mobile phone manufacturers in India reveals that most of the workers at four electronics factories owned by Nokia, Flextronics, Foxconn and Salcomp in Chennai’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are either contract workers or ‘trainees’ who have no claim to permanent employment and are often trapped in unfair and exploitative positions. Recognised unions at Nokia and Foxconn have been able to negotiate salary increases for the permanent workers excluding temporary labour.