富士康发言人承认管理出现问题

Tech firm Foxconn has confessed that it paid insufficient attention to workers' welfare following the death of an eighth employee.

在连续有8名员工死亡之后，富士康科技公司终于承认，它对员工的福利方面没有给予足够的重视。

Twenty-one-year-old Nan Gang was the tenth Foxconn worker to jump from a building this year at the Longhua industrial complex of Shenzhen last week.

上周，在深圳龙华工业园区，年仅21岁的南钢从楼上跳下，“完成”了富士康今年的“第十跳”。

The two employees that did not die sustained severe injuries. All the victims were below 25-years-old and had worked at the company for less than a year.

2名跳楼自杀未遂的员工均受重伤。所有受害者年龄均在25岁以下，来到公司工作都不足1年。

Foxconn responded to angry employees, who blamed the lower-level management and insufficient provision of psychological counseling for the tragedies this year: "Has the enterprise provided sufficient mechanisms and opportunities for them to communicate and interact with each other? I feel that Foxconn has not done enough in the past," Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun admitted in an interview with state television at the weekend.

愤怒的员工责怪公司管理水平低下，没有针对今年发生在公司的惨案给予其他员工到位的心理咨询。上周末，富士康的发言人刘坤在接受中国中央电视台的采访时说：“企业是不是给员工提供了健全的机制和足够多的机会去相互沟通，相互交往？我觉得之前公司在这方面做的不够。”

Many workers claim that they feel lonely, as they are surrounded by strangers both at work and in their homes and human contact is limited: "I've worked here for about one-and-a-half months and I've only met my dorm mates twice. And I haven't spoken more than five sentences in total to them," an unidentified male Foxconn employee said.

很多员工称自己感到孤独，无论在公司还是在宿舍，身边都是陌生人，人们之间的交往不多。一名未透露身份的男性员工说，“我在这里工作了一个半月了，在这期间，我只见过室友两次，总共和他们也没说过几句话。”

Wages are so low in China that exhausted workers who wish to take a rest are forced to do overtime. After ten years of employment the basic wage is around 1090 yuan (around £110 per month).

员工的工资低，工作压力大，当精疲力竭、想要休息的时候还是被强迫去加班。十年下来，员工的平均基本工资约为1090元。

Listening Notes：
consolation: 安慰，慰藉