Brazil: Zara strikes deal with Brazilian court following the slavery scandal

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ant is going to invest EUR 1.4 million in Brazil to prevent slave labor in the textile industry, by virtue of the agreement signed with the Brazilian labor prosecution. In doing so, the Court is dropping the charges against the Inditex multinational company, which owns Zara, after several clothing workshops supplying the brand were found to employ people under slavery-like conditions in august. (Ref. 110798)

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