Nokia (Finland) pays its India workers $96 a month

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"Finnwatch said Nokia paid contract workers about €70 ($96) a month at its factory in Chennai, which is a quarter above the legal minimum wage but less than the €127-a-month minimum living wage for India, according to the Asia Floor Wage campaign.

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“A large number of workers are employed in precarious positions and earn very low salaries, even in the Indian context,” said Päivi Pöyhönen at Finnwatch.

Nokia’s factory is its largest in the world, employing more than 11,300 workers producing about 300,000 sets per day. About 45 per cent of the workforce is on time-limited or trainee contracts."

[MineralMan]

1. This is subscriber-only content. How about searching for the

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2. FT is well respected - I subscribe and three short sentences are

within guidelines.

I prefer to concentrate on the race to the labor cost bottom.

[Tesha]

3. Nokia is just about over.

Here are two links:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7eb98ce2-de24-11e0-9fb7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1XsNezS6e

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110913-705210.html

Nokia is just about over. If their "Hail Mary Play"
with Microsoft and WinPhone7 doesn't pan out, they
may have to go back to making galoshes because they're
very rapidly falling out of all sectors of the mobile
phone business.

Tesha