Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is preparing a complaint against Adidas to the German National Contact Point of the OECD for failing to provide access to remedy to 327 workers from their Indonesian shoe supplier Panarub...

Clean Clothes Campaign argues that Adidas has violated the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises as well as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights which state, that companies need to assess their human rights risks, carry out human rights due diligence and in the event of human rights abuses in their supply chain mitigate and provide access to remedy to rightsholders, in this case the PDK workers.

Adidas was well informed about the labour rights violations in 2012 that eventually forced the workers to strike. The leading sportswear brand chose to instruct its supplier to no longer produce its shoes at the contested factory; an action that failed to prevent further rights abuses from happening... Adidas shoes have been produced at the PDK factory at the time the first union members have been dismissed (February 2012) and until shortly before the strike. Furthermore Adidas continues to do business with Panarub Group, the mother company of PDK.