When we don't and there's a gap, they force us to work extra to meet the quota. Workers have also complained that they were paid as temporaries for longer than the law allowed, and not given automatic raises after one year, as required. Nike says it has fixed those problems. Another huge issue is the question of a fair wage. The short answer is no.
Corporations pay the going rate for labor wherever they are.
And Nike maintains that the rate is good. Research conducted by Dartmouth College, for instance, found that Nike subcontractors in Indonesia and Vietnam paid above subsistence levels, allowing workers to save a portion of their earnings. TIME found this to be true at Yueyuan. Outside auditors as well as nongovernmental organizations have also had a look. But Nike's critics have argued that the company cannot monitor work standards credibly with its own staff or with hired guns such as former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, whom Nike paid to visit plants in China, Vietnam and Indonesia.