Nike had to pay 4500 workers

class="contentheading" Nike forced to pay 4500 workers

colspan="2" class="createdate"> Thursday, January 12, 2012 Nike The company must pay a compensation of one million dollars to employees for unpaid overtime in Indonesia. As stated on Corriere.it, as this was announced by the National Workers Union Serikat Pekerja (Spn), representing 4500 employees of a factory where they sewed shoes, noting that, after a battle of eleven months, the ' manufacturer of apparel and accessories will have to pay about 700 thousand euros for 593,468 hours of overtime pay its workers at the factory Serang, worked in the past two years.

After the workers' complaints, in February 2010, says the Courier, the Spn had started its investigation and found that almost 4,500 workers had worked for free for up to two hours of overtime daily for six days a week. After some negotiations, the Seattle company has agreed to a deal with the union.