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.