July 31, 2021

09:07

Cassandra Castro – from Cenarium

BRASILIA (DF) – Publicizing the names of individuals or companies that employ workers in conditions analogous to slavery. The issue that many thought a reality of the past still persists in Brazil today. Data from the Digital Slave Labor Observatory, show that between 1995 and 2018, there were more than 50 thousand rescues in the country. But, experts point out that the number of Brazilians living in subhuman employment situations is still alarming.

Congressman Captain Alberto Neto (Republicans-AM) sent a request to the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, in which he suggests that the list of bad employers fined in fiscal action precisely because they subjected workers to the constraints of slave labor be made public through the media.

“It is outrageous to see employers taking advantage of the workers’ poverty to keep them in a situation of slavery. It’s a reality that can’t go on, and it’s up to us to fight this situation rigorously and seriously”, says the representative from the state of Amazonas.

The congressman is also the author of PLP 128/2019, which amends Complementary Law 101, of May 4, 2000, and suggests forbidding the concession of subsidies, tax incentives, and public funding to individuals or companies that have submitted workers to conditions analogous to slavery.