International Agencies Appeal For Footwear Enterprises Adidas To Assume Social Responsibility For China

The south wind Research Institute of the International Development Policy Institute recently published three research reports. Germany The big enterprises - the supermarket, Metro and Adidas clothing companies - criticized them for serious infringement of Chinese labor rights and rights in China, and called on them to take up social responsibility to China.

According to the report of the south wind Research Institute, a factory in Guangdong which produces textiles for the company has an overtime workload of up to 130 hours per month, and often works overtime without charge. Two shoe factories in Fujian, which make shoes for Adidas, work overtime every month for up to 92 hours. Migrant workers working in Metro supermarket can not take maternity leave, and they can not enjoy certain social benefits.

In response to this report, three German companies named after the list responded. Adidas A spokesman for the company said in an interview with the South German newspaper that Adidas will take criticism seriously and verify it. Metro said in a statement that the company has always been committed to implementing the labor standards of the International Labour Organization as fully as possible in the Chinese market. Hardi also partially acknowledged the bad situation, but the German biggest retailer said it was difficult to find out which supplier was having such a problem with a general description. The company always worked with suppliers to improve the social welfare and labor standards.

For the response of these big enterprises, the German N-TV TV station is on the "humiliation column". retail "Foxconn is not a single case," German commentaries said in the program. "German companies are overworking overtime in China, but companies pretend they don't know."