Company making iPhones shut for a week in Karnataka after 60 staff test positive for COVID
Speaking to The New Indian Express, Dr Selvamani said he along with Kolar Superintendent of Police Karthick Reddy visited the factory and instructed district health officials to test all the staff
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KOLAR: Wistron Corporation in Narapura industrial area which manufactures iPhones has been shut down for seven days after around 60 positive cases were reported at the unit.
On the instruction of Kolar Deputy Commissioner Dr Selvamani, the unit has totally suspended all work from May 1 to May 7 and started disinfecting the entire premises.
Industrial activity in Karnataka, which had gathered momentum, is getting affected again
Industrial activity in the State, which had picked up after the restrictions imposed during the lockdown last year were eased, seems to be getting affected again with the raging pandemic. While cluster outbreaks have been reported in industrial areas in the past fortnight, several manufacturing plants in the auto sector have already declared holiday to break the chain of infection.
In industrial areas
Multiple sources in the industry confirmed that several big automobile companies have declared holiday, and other factories that have adequate inventory have also shut down for a few days. A big number of cases have started being reported in factories from industrial areas in Jigani–Anekal–Bommasandra, Peenya, Doddaballapur, and Narasapura. Cluster outbreaks have been reported in pharma companies too.
Apple s India iPhone assembly partner Wistron hopes to move past the December riot with new reporting structures and leadership changes.
Wistron changes up leadership to combat labor violations
Wistron had been placed on probation by Apple after workers rioted at a Narasapura, India facility. The company was part of Apple s move into India as it reduced its reliance on China, but labor law violations groundwork to a halt.
Reuters, multiple steps were taken to ensure assembly could resume without further law violations. The former head of operations was moved to a less critical role, and the former India managing director was shifted to a business development role.
Apple s India iPhone assembly partner Wistron hopes to move past the December riot with new reporting structures and leadership changes.
Wistron had been placed on probation by Apple after workers rioted at a Narasapura, India facility. The company was part of Apple s move into India as it reduced its reliance on China, but labor law violations groundwork to a halt.
Reuters, multiple steps were taken to ensure assembly could resume without further law violations. The former head of operations was moved to a less critical role, and the former India managing director was shifted to a business development role. This is Wistron signaling to investors, to clients, to India that it has moved beyond the shadow of the December incident and is ready for new business,
Karnataka Labour Minister Shivaram Hebbar on Monday said that vandalism that took place in Wistron Corporation s Narsapur plant in Kolar district last year was due to its own fault as it failed to address the issues of the aggrieved employees. He added that the riot-hit Apple s contract manufacturer Wistron Corporation has resumed its operations in Kolar after cutting down its contract employee strength from 8,490 to 2,657 from this month. The minister strongly defended his department asserting that the Wistron had failed to intimate its expansion plans to departments concerned as a result of this the violence went out of its hand.