This article references a nytimes article. This article has no regional reference for the workers.
It was recently reported that Apple was experiencing 50% defect rate in India where this newspaper seems to be from.
Could be that Apple had higher expectations.
> According to a report in the New York Post, over the last few days, Apple has laid off hundreds of contract workers – workers that were actually employed by outside agencies but worked alongside Apple employees on various projects.
"they are forced to work more than a mile away from Apple’s “spaceship” headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. at a facility which, in addition to relatively ho-hum architecture, lacks free snacks."
I do have sympathy for people that thought they were on a 6/12/whatever month contract and let go early. But this NY Post article is really reaching.