Adidas accused of failing factory workers in Cambodia

AMSTERDAM – Garment factory workers in Cambodia, which produced garments for Adidas – among other brands – were deprived of an estimated US$109m in April-May 2021 alone, according to an inventory by unions in 114 factories. Adidas is linked to the largest wage theft in the factory sample, with losses inflicted on 30,190 workers across eight adidas supplier factories since the start of the pandemic totalling US$11.7m.

Clean Clothes Campaign Germany is calling on Adidas to “fulfil its responsibility to decisively mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on workers within its supply chain by signing a binding and enforceable agreement on wages, severance pay and freedom of association.”