Almost everybody here focuses on Apple instead on the Wistron. Having said that I am more inclined that the fault lies on the local managements and myriad of subcontracting companies or even third-party payroll and HR systems.
One thing is certain, this problem isn’t specific to Apple. The whole electronics manufacturing industry is rotten and the only ones capable of fixing it are the governments of these counties. Wistron should be crushed for this wage theft and serve as a warning for other companies.
I've noticed a pattern where large companies use a -lot- of contractors, sometimes under many layers. When I worked in Telecom, we were usually the contractor for Comcast, but sometimes there was another contractor above us and we were the 'sub-contractor'.
But then, below us, were often 1 or 2 more layers of subcontractors.
1/3 of the time we had decent contractors and scope of work and everything worked out. The other 2/3 of the time, it would be one or more of the following:
- The contractor mis-bid the project in a way that would lead them to go bankrupt in a year or two
- The contractor did a cut-rate job to maximize their profits.
- The deadlines or work rate were unreasonable and led to mistakes.
Yeah... because how fucking stupid would someone have to be to work at one of the world's largest, most valuable companies and expect anyone in their right mind to believe them when they throw up their hands and say, "Oh my God guys, we had nOoOoOoOo ideeeea this was happening!"
Yeah. Fucking. Right.
The naiveté of the average HR poster staggers me.