Brazil: authorities investigate the use of slavery in Zara’s workshops

bor and the San Paulo administration charged the Spanish clothing giant, Zara, with 52 infringements to labor standards after discovering, in mid-August, three clothing workshops belonging to the brand’s suppliers maintaining their workers under slavery conditions. The Brazilian authorities are going to have to determine whether Zara is directly responsible for the degrading working conditions imposed by its subcontractors in which case the brand could be put on the blacklist of slave...