耐克向印尼加班员工支付赔偿金

Sportswear group Nike has agreed compensation in a dispute with workers in Indonesia over unpaid overtime.

体育用品公司耐克同意向印尼的加班员工支付赔偿金。

The company will pay $1m (£650,000) to about 4,500 workers at a PT Nikomas plant in Serang, Banten.

The workers union that brought the case to Nike said in a statement that 593,468 hours of overtime went unpaid over the last two years.

The union said it hopes this will set a precedent（先例） for factories across the country.

"This has the potential to send shock waves through the Indonesian labour movement," said Bambang Wirahyoso, the national chairman of the Serikat Pekerja National (SPN) trade union.

"The leadership at SPN is gearing up to take on the fight for any workers who have been subjected to forced overtime without pay. We have only just begun."

Short-changed?

The settlement comes after 11 months of negotiations between Nike and the union.

Nike said in a statement: "Nike commends the factory on their action plan and efforts to correct inadequacies in current policies designed to protect the rights of workers. Nike will continue to monitor and support their efforts to remediate the situation."

The company also said it would offer training programs, and set up a task force to address grievances（抱怨，不平） .

However, despite the settlement, the issue is likely to remain a contentious（诉讼的） one between the two parties.

SPN said that while it was pleased with the result, the workers were owed much more.

"The practise of forcing workers to do overtime without pay was actually happening for 18 years at Nikomas, but Indonesian law only allows redress for the past two years," SPN said in a statement.