Foxconn apologizes for pay dispute at China iPhone factory

Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics for Apple and other global brands, blamed a "technical error” in the process of adding new employees and said they would be paid what they were promised. — AP

BEIJING: The company that assembles Apple Inc.’s iPhones apologized Thursday for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production.

Employees complained Foxconn Technology Group changed the terms of wages offered to attract them to the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou. Foxconn is trying to rebuild the workforce after employees walked out last month over complaints about unsafe conditions.