Industria de Diseno Textil

Inditex, the parent company of brands including Zara, operates a global supply chain of thousands of factories. Multiple independent investigations over more than a decade have documented a pattern of dangerous working conditions in these facilities. A 2023 report by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre linked the company to factories in Myanmar where workers faced excessive heat, inadequate ventilation, and forced overtime. In 2021, the Clean Clothes Campaign documented similar conditions in Turkish factories supplying Inditex, including blocked fire exits and structural safety risks.

This pattern extends to wage-related exploitation that compounds unsafe conditions. The same 2023 BHRRC report noted that workers in Myanmar factories producing for Inditex brands were paid below the legal minimum wage, trapping them in poverty and making them unable to refuse unsafe overtime. While Inditex has public commitments to its Code of Conduct for manufacturers, these recurring, geographically dispersed incidents indicate systemic enforcement failures in its supply chain oversight.