Nike employee taken to court

Nike employee taken to court

HANOI (AFP): The prosecution of foreign Korean supervisor for
labor abuses at one of Nike's exclusive shoe suppliers in
southern Vietnam has begun, reports said yesterday.

The official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said that Hsu Jui Yun,
who formerly worked as a supervisor at the Korean-owned Pou Chen
Shoe Factory was suspended after she allegedly forced 56 women to
run around the factory floor in International Women's day in
March.

The prosecutor's office of Dong Nai province, where Pou Chen
employs some 8,000 workers, has requested that the South Korean
compensate the victims, of whom eight were hospitalized after
fainting during the punishment, VNA said.

At the time Pou Chen executives acknowledged the incident and
suspended Hsu. The incident is one of several labor problems to
have plagued Nike's suppliers in Vietnam.