After the first employee committed suicide in 2010, Foxconn was so committed to do the right thing, Foxconn promised to take care of the man's parents for life…

This is not true. In reality, Foxconn was demanding its employees sign a suicide liability waiver at that time which contained "a disclaimer clause granting Foxconn impunity if a worker commits suicide."

CCTV gave close coverage of the Foxconn deaths and suicides, and the only compensation deal like this that I could find mention of was when Ma Xiangqian was found beaten to death in a company dormitory.

This might be impossible to understand for westerners, but many employees thought this was a good deal and started jumping. One of the later jumpers sent a text message to his parents right before he jumped that read "Jump once, family fed for life."

It's disappointing and alarming that, not just you, but all the readers here seem to have accepted all this unquestioningly, even adding comments like "None of this was news to anyone paying attention."

Some here seem to be under the impression that Mike Daisey's fabrications are the only stories we have of conditions at Foxconn. No, that's not true: many other journalists were covering the problem more responsibly. Here's a 2013 New York Times article by David Barboza and Chen Yang in which they interviewed a former employee who had attempted but survived. Her story is like something from Terry Gilliam's Brazil: far from trying to support her family, the thing that led her to suicide was that she couldn't obtain their support; a bureaucratic loop of shrugging managers at Foxconn had robbed her of her wages and left her feeling utterly helpless.

We have multiple reasons to believe that the underlying premise of this claim – that Foxconn employees were committing suicide to win compensation for their families – is untrue.