Although this figure is above the minimum wage, Nike's subcontractors do not even pay that. However, Nike is not satisfied with the factory and recently announced that they are moving it to China. Not only are they forced into overtime without compensation, the 65 hour work week is in clear violation of Vietnamese labor laws. Those employees that do last often work over 500 hours in overtime per year. The Vietnam law restricts a corporation to 200 hours in overtime per year.
Workers complain that many faint during shift from exhaustion, heat, fumes and poor nutrition.
Ernst and Young similarly found in China that the plants have no safety goggles, fume hoods or gloves for workers handling dangerous chemicals such as benzene and toluene, a known carcinogen that poses a fatal risk. Exposure rates were upwards of 177 times that considered dangerous. In this factory, there is one doctor and two nurses to service 10,000 workers. In the Sam Yang factory in Vietnam there is one doctor who works two hours a day to service 6,000 workers. Employees in Vietnam have stated that verbal abuse and sexual harassment are frequent and that corporal punishment is often used.