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Written by Maggie Moore

Monday, August 29 2011 13:38

Zara, the fast fashion retailer the world has come to love, is speeding towards the future. Its parent company, Inditex, is one of Spain's largest companies (there are over 1,500 Zara stores worldwide, and they're launching online shopping in the United States). Yet alongside all these developments is a bigger headline - one of Zara's suppliers is being investigated for slave labor and unsafe working conditions - and Zara isn't doing much about it. With so much momentum happening for Zara, why are they complacent with taking steps backwards?

Brazilian authorities recently received a tip about a supplier, and raided the unsafe sweatshops producing Zara's clothing. The sweatshops were full of "unhygienic working conditions," and employees were working for the Brazilian equivalent of only $130 a month. Many of the workers in the manufacturing factories worked twelve-hour shifts at a time. Even if the supplier is a "non-authorized outsourcer" as Zara claims, it's still the retailer's responsibility to keep business and production standards up to code.

Zara isn't the only retailer to use unsavory manufacturing processes. Companies ranging from The Gap to Nike have been thrown into the spotlight for child labor and unsafe conditions. Since the scandals, these companies made drastic changes to their suppliers' code of conduct, and strictly enforced it. Zara, on the other hand, is only asking their sweatshop supplier to "regularize the situation" and improve conditions just enough to meet Brazilian laws and supplier standards. With such grave infractions and accusations, it would be a more ethical and dignified move for Zara to drop the supplier completely. Although Zara is the store everyone loves, their business practices are definitely leaving something to be desired.

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