According to various sources the Foxconn factory that make the fantastic products like xbox360,wii,iphone and ps3′s amongst many other items of loveliness, have decided to give their workers more money. For the second time in a week!.They are hoping that with the rise in pay, and the wire netting around the factory the deaths caused by over working and military style rules the workers may actually want to live.

Nintendo are commited to ethical manufacturing and also were part of the folks taking a look at how the factory operates a few months ago.

Despite what Nintendo,HP and all the other companies have stated and are concerned about, Apple boss Steve Jobs still rejects criticisms of poor working conditions at the factory. Foxconn has increased the basic salary by 30 per cent, with a new conditional 70 per cent hike also now set for October.

“While overtime work was always voluntary, this wage increase will reduce overtime work as a personal necessity,” according to a statement on the BBC.

Assembly line workers were initially offered a 20 per cent increase from Ұ900 ($132) per month, but this was changed to 30 per cent last week. Now, the firm is offering to up that to Ұ2000 ($293) per month for employees that pass a 3-month performance test. The rise is specific to the Shenzhen factory where at least 10 people have commited suicide, although workers at Foxconn’s other locations will also see wages increase from the beginning of July.

But Jobs – who has overseen a new wave of Apple market presence occur with the release of the iPhone, and now iPad – was said to be impressed with the facility.

“You go in this place and it’s a factory but, my gosh, they’ve got restaurants and movie theatres and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it’s pretty nice,”

he told a conference audience last week.

“Foxconn is not a sweatshop.”