Taiwan’s Foxconn agrees to suicide compensation
The Taiwanese employer of a young Chinese man who killed himself after being interrogated over a missing iPhone prototype has agreed to pay compensation to his family, a company official said today.
Sun Danyong, 25, jumped from his high-rise apartment in southern China last week after officials of Foxconn Technology Group questioned him about the whereabouts of the iPhone model that was in his possession.
Sun was responsible for sending the device to U.S.-based Apple Inc., which contracts with Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics.
Sun alleged he was beaten and abused by Foxconn security personnel, who denied it.
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A Foxconn official in Taipei said today the company would pay Sun’s parents a lump sum of $52,600, plus $4,385 every year as long as either of them remains alive.
