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Zara becomes latest victim of ethical sourcing storm
Fashion retailer Zara has shutdown a supplier’s factory in Bangladesh after workers complained of ill-treatment, the BBC has said.
The move comes after a high-profile investigation of Primark’s working practices in the region.
The factory did not make clothes for Zara directly, but was part of a firm that supplied the chain.
Zara has instructed the supplier, owned by Inditex, that it must shut down the plant and redeploy its workers.
"The overall factory condition is not good, especially there is verbal abuse and the physical abuse as well,” a female worker told BBC World Service’s Global Business programme.
"If we make any kind of small mistake they beat us and or they deduct our wages," she said.
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility for Inditex said that Zara had not knowingly bought clothes from the plant in the past five years.
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