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Wages of Labour Discrimination: Case Study on Nike Company Indonesia

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Benham define wage brings the meaning of an amount of payments from an employer to an employee (labor under contract to perform service). In 2011, Nike has operated in Indonesia was criticized by several NGO’s because of low wages for the employee which is 2.50$ a day where the product itself is handmade and expensive. Nike Incorporation is a company that produces sports goods such as shoes, trousers, clothes and so on, where had been operating since the year 1976. Fiscal in 2015, has a manufacture in Vietnam, China, and Indonesia respectively produced 43%, 32% and 20% shoes branded by Nike. This paper made is intended to see how far Nike, Inc. violated business ethics in the wages of labor rate context which occurred in Indonesia. This also can become a reference to any parties to identify the causes of unethical business activity in the world.
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In-Text Citation: (Yusoof, Zuber, MNSR, Zamziba, & Toriry, 2017)
To Cite this Article: Yusoof, S., Zuber, F., MNSR, H., Zamziba, N., & Toriry, S. (2017). Wages of Labour Discrimination: Case Study on Nike Company Indonesia. International Journal of Academic Research in Public Policy and Governace, 4(1), 20–28.