Puma Factory Reaps Rewards Of Paying for Workers’ Meals

A factory supplying shoes for German sports brand Puma has experienced no mass faintings and seen overall productivity improve since it started providing meals to its workers last year, a Puma representative and a factory official said yesterday. Workers at Huey Chuen (Cambodia) Corp. Ltd. in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district also said they were more productive because fewer of them were taking sick leave. More than 100 workers at the factory fainted in April 2011 and another 47 fainted less than four months later. They were diagnosed with low blood sugar levels from having skipped breakfast. …