A group of Taiwanese academics requested Foxconn Technology Group to discontinue a strict and callous management approach at its mammoth factory compound in southern China.

Their appeal comes after a recent series of suicides at the Shenzhen facility that recruits and gives accommodation to over 300,000 persons, several from poor families in the Chinese interior.

Taiwanese and other labor campaigners have long alleged Foxconn of following an extremely quick assembly line and coerced overtime. The firm rebuffs the accusations, but recently declared two increments, more than twofolding the basic employee salary in Shenzhen to 2,000 Yuan ($293) a month.

Taiwan-based, Foxconn assembles iPads and iPhones for Apple Inc., and also makes computers for Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.

Social scientist, Yang You-ren at Taichung's Tunghai University started the Taiwan plea initiative, prior this month. He said that he and other scholars are shocked by Foxconn's labor rules.

On Monday, Yang told The Associated Press, "Foxconn's military management model, including scolding and sometimes beating front-line workers, helps drive isolated Chinese workers to kill themselves".

He added that if the firm does not put a stop to this, there will be more suicide cases in the upcoming time.