Zara defends stance in Brazil sweatshop row
Author: Ivan Castano Freeman | 26 August 2011
Spanish fashion giant Zara has told just-style it will consider appealing some $700,000 in possible fines stemming from a Brazilian Labour Ministry investigation into "slave labour" conditions at one of its suppliers, after insisting it wasn't aware of the violations.
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