Adidas, step up your game on workers' rights!

Adidas are refusing to pay a cent to Indonesian workers who are still owed US$ 1.8 million in severance pay a year after their factory, PT Kizone, closed down.

In January 2011, the owner of PT Kizone in Indonesia fled, resulting in the closure of the factory in April the same year, and leaving 2,800 workers without work and the severance pay they were entitled to. Sportswear brand adidas had been sourcing from PT Kizone for many years, where workers were paid as little as US$ 0.60 an hour.

One thing is certain. It’s not because they can't afford it. At the end of 2011 adidas recorded a 18% increase in company profits. They managed to pull together the £ 100 million pounds needed to become the main sponsors of this year’s Olympic Games.