NewcastleLabour inspectors found 8% of 70 factories compliant.
The labour department found Foschini’s Jet-labelled clothing inside a factory it raided in February.
Retailers set the price per garment, and suppliers who demand more risk losing business, union official Vilina Membinkosi said.
Pep says it has no future orders planned with design house Drake Clothing.
A court must still rule on the bargaining council’s bid to liquidate Drake Clothing and Gemelli.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- traces the Newcastle abuses back to the 2001 twin-death case and the 2022 DEL finding that only 8% of 70 factories complied, framing 'buying local' as no safer than imports
Sources: Daily Maverick