Dealing with problems the Chinese way

In the news in China recently, there's been a huge amount of coverage of a company called Foxconn based in southern China. In the last few months, a dozen employees have committed suicide (mostly by jumping to their deaths from their worker-dorm windows.)
The suicides themselves do not come as a surprise to me. The workers' conditions in the company (whilst nowhere near the worst in China) are still poor, with 10 workers sharing a dorm and many work such long hours that they don't even know their dorm-mates names.) They aren't allowed to leave the company complex without permission and can even get into trouble if they consistently fail to finish all the food on their plates in the workers' canteen!!
What is incredible though, is the company's response to the problem. After the first few suicides, when the media first became interested, the company decided that the best thing to do was to call in a group of monks to conduct some ceremonies to "ward off bad fortune."
Clearly this didn't work and after the next few suicides, the company had a more practical plan and put railings across the outside of the workers windows to prevent any further jumps from the rooms.
It's only now, with the 12th suicide (and that doesn't include the other 4-5 who tried to kill themselves but failed) that the company have decided to give its employees a 20% pay rise. Whether this will make up for the living conditions and lack of humanity towards the workers remains to be seen...