The Adidas Annual Report of 1996 already states that sourcing is at the heart of the business and a crucial factor in reducing production costs. Women becoming pregnant are dismissed. Unions are being suppressed. Workers have to work seven days a week with forced overtime of up to seven hours a day - paid at the normal rate of pay. At the Tainan factory in Indonesia, neither the minimum wage nor the legally prescribed overtime pay are being paid.
Overtime is forced and exceeds the legally prescribed maximum number of hours.
Union activities are being hampered. Sanctions for mistakes are excessive in proportion to the wages paid. Health and safety are neglected. Female workers are sexually harassed. When collective bargaining negotiations were taking place at the Indonesian sports shoe factory Nikomas Gemilang in September 1999, military troops appeared in and around the premises.