Just Pay It: Nike Factory Ordered to Compensate Indonesian Workers for Forced Overtime
Ulma Haryanto | January 12, 2012
Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten, are due to receive nearly $1 million for forced overtime without payment in a move apparently unprecedented in Indonesia.
“Last year, we received the complaint from the workers’ union at PT Nikomas, a supplier for Nike, that they had been working overtime without pay,” Bambang Wirahyoso, chairman of the National Workers Union (SPN), said on Wednesday.
A subsequent investigation by SPN and Educating for Justice, a US-based nonprofit that exposes alleged labor abuses by Nike and other companies, found that at least 4,437 workers had been working overtime for up to two hours a day, six days a week.
The investigation and negotiation, Bambang said, took almost a year before the management at Nikomas agreed to pay up.
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