A local government in China has determined that the world’s largest manufacturer of sports shoes which supplies Adidas and Nike should reimburse striking workers for underpaying their pension contributions over many years.
Thousands of workers at Yue Yuen Industrial, which also supplies Asics, Puma and New Balance, have been on strike for 10 days in the southern city of Dongguan over claims that the company has not been paying the legal level of contributions.
In a survey conducted by its official trade union, Dongguan government said Yue Yuen should reimburse workers who had claimed that it had calculated pension contributions as a percentage of their base wage instead of total income.