{"id":7143,"date":"2013-01-15T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:46:22","slug":"nike-investigates-indonesian-suppliers-for-labor-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2013\/01\/15\/nike-investigates-indonesian-suppliers-for-labor-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike investigates Indonesian suppliers for labor violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/01\/15\/nike-investigates-indonesian-suppliers-for-labor-violations\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7146\" title=\"Nike investigates Indonesian suppliers for labor violations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/130115_nike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>US sporting goods giant Nike said it was investigating claims by  labour activists that its manufacturers in Indonesia were trying to  evade paying its workers the minimum wage. \u201cNike takes these claims seriously and company representatives are  investigating the claims,\u201d global corporate communications director Greg  Rossiter told AFP. Nike\u2019s code of conduct is \u201cvery clear\u201d, he said, adding the company  expected workers producing for Nike to be \u201cpaid at least the minimum  wage required by country law and provided legally mandated benefits\u201d,  such as holidays, leave and severance pay. Following massive protests, Jakarta workers won a 44 percent minimum  wage rise to 2.2 million rupiah ($228) a month, effective on January 1,  and other provincial governments are following suit at different rates. Minimum wages are regulated at provincial and district levels in  Indonesia but authorities have mulled giving exemption to factories  deemed unable to afford the hikes. Jim Keady, head of the US-based NGO Education for Justice (EFJ), has  said at least six Indonesian suppliers had applied for exemptions. After the EFJ visited the western Javanese city of Sukabumi, it  reported a Nike supplier there had won approval from the district wage  council to pay only 1.1 million rupiah, instead of the new minimum wage  of 1.2 million rupiah. \u201cNike unfortunately exercises imperialist values \u2013 values that run  counter to the commitments to democracy and human rights,\u201d Keady said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/01\/15\/nike-investigates-indonesian-suppliers-for-labor-violations\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Indonesia |  Company: Nike\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/01\/15\/nike-investigates-indonesian-suppliers-for-labor-violations\/\">Agence France-Presse \/ The Raw Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US sporting goods giant Nike said it was investigating claims by labour activists that its manufacturers in Indonesia were trying to evade paying its workers the minimum wage. \u201cNike takes these claims seriously and company representatives are investigating the claims,\u201d global corporate communications director Greg Rossiter told AFP. Nike\u2019s code of conduct is \u201cvery clear\u201d,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nike","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}