In a move which hints at a fundamental shift at Foxconn, amid pressure from various quarters from within China and overseas, the Apple supplier has recently announced a 16 percent to 25 percent increase in the wages for the assembly line workers in its Chinese factories.

In a new, comprehensive article that highlights some interesting details pertaining to the popular Apple iPad tablet, The New York Times’ Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher have shed light on Apple’s practice of overseas production of components of its devices, particularly at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.

In a Thursday statement, the world’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology said that its pay dispute with its employees at one of its central China plants has been resolved successfully and peacefully.

Foxconn, known entity who caters to serve the US firms in assembling hardware for leading US and European electronics firms, has claimed of soaring of prices of the products in order to make it up for the wage rises for its employees.

It is said to be a firm that has been known to be side unit of Hon Hai Precision Industry.

A factory operation of an Indian facility, which manufactures parts of mobile phone, has been suspended by Foxconn International (2038. HK). The facility is owned by Foxconn. Foxconn took the step as workers of the Indian facility got sick According to Foxconn this move won’t affect their business.

The recent news-making Chinese-based technology maker Foxconn has declared that it soon start outsourcing of the management employees dormitories to two local Chinese property companies.

The Chinese based technology maker develops many products for big companies such as Apple, HP, Dell and Sony and also it is the subsidiary group of Taiwan-based Hon Hai Group.

Foxconn Technology Group, suffering disapproval by labor groups over a wave of suicides, said that the deaths were most likely due to personal issues and aggravated by compensation charges proffered to the families of casualties.