📋 Tender Overview
The Labor Inspectorate rescued 2575 workers with slave-like conditions in 2022 out of a total of 462 inspections carried out nationwide nationwide resulting in more than R8 million in labor rights. The Special Mobile Surveillance Group GEFM carried out 32 of the total tax actions finding slave-like work in 16 of the 20 states where actions occurred. Only in the states of LA AM and AP even inspected no cases of contemporary slavery were found in 2022.The data were released by the Labor Inspection Secretariat of the Ministry of Labor and Employment in the week alusive to January 28 established as the National Day to Combat Slave Labor in honor of the fiscal auditors of the Work Eratstenes de Almeida Gonsalves Joo Batista Soares Lage and Nelson Jos da Silva and the driver Alton Pereira de Oliveira killed in action in 2004 an episode that became known as the Una Slaughter. At the time Nelson Silva was stationed at the Regional Labor Management of ParacatuMG and the other three servers in the Regional Superintendence of LaborMG in Belo Horizonte. With actions still in progress that occurred in 2022 this amount of 2575 may be rectified throughout 2023.Minas Gerais was the state with the most tax actions that occurred in the year 117 with 1070 workers rescued. Next comes Gois with 49 inspections and Bahia with 32 shares. The largest rescue of workers occurred in Varjo de MinasMG where 273 workers were rescued from degrading working conditions in sugarcane cutting activities.The indemnities reached a total of R 8187090.13 in the year due to salary and termination due to the immediate termination of employment contracts. The employment link with the formalization of employment contracts reached 1122 workers and more than R 2.8 million was collected as the Service Time Guarantee Fund FGTS.According to the head of the Division of Supervision for the Eradication of Slave Labor Detrae labor fiscal auditor Maurcio Krepsky the rescue aims to stop the violation of rights repair the damage caused in the scope of the labor relationship and promote the proper referral of victims to be welcomed by social assistance.Profile of rescued workers - Regarding the social profile of the rescued people unemployment insurance data paid to the rescued worker show that 92 were men 29 of them were between 30 and 39 years old. 51 lived in the northeast region and another 58 were from this region. 83 of them declared themselves black or brown and 15 white and 2 indigenous.Regarding the level of education 23 of them reported having studied until the 5th incomplete year another 20 had attended from the 6th to the 9th year incomplete. 7 of the rescued workers declared themselves illiterate.Another important fact shown by the report is that 148 rescued were migrants from other countries double that of 2021. The teams found 101 Paraguayans 25 Bolivians 14 Venezuelans 4 Haitians and 4 Argentines.The head of Detrae points out that the Migration Law provides for the residence permit of a victim of human trafficking slave labor or violation of the right aggravated by their migratory status. In these cases the application is forwarded to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security by the Labor Inspectorate thus ensuring the stay of the migrant in the country if so his will he explained.Activities - Among the economic activities 362 people were rescued in sugarcane cultivation 273 in agriculture support activities 212 in the production of charcoal 171 in the cultivation of garlic 168 in coffee cultivation 126 in apple cultivation 115 in extraction and crushing of stones 110 in cattle breeding 108 in soybean cultivation 102 wood extraction and 68 in civil construction.Of the total number of actions 73 of them occurred in the rural area a sector that also contributed 87 of the rescues a percentage very close to those of 2019 and 2020. In the urban environment 27 of the shares 210 workers were rescued in the activities of civil construction 68 rescues service sector specifically in restaurants 63 rescues and clothing making 39 rescues. In domestic slave labor 30 people were found by the inspection in 15 units of the federation with a greater focus in Bahia 10 cases. Paraba Minas Gerais So Paulo and Pernambuco had 3 cases in each state. Due to the great impact of the rescue of the domestic worker Madalena Gordiano at the end of 2020 in Patos de MinasMG the number of complaints increased throughout the country which led the Labor Inspectorate to increase inspection in this sector in order to verify possible situation of contemporary slavery in rural and urban domestic environments and this situation was found in 29 actions out of 43 carried out in 2022 explains Krepsky.Child Slave Labor The report also demonstrates that 35 children and adolescents were found by the teams submitted to slave-like labor. Of the total number of rescued 10 were under 16 years old and 25 were between 16 and 18 years old at the time of the rescue.Coffee cultivation was the activity in which more children and adolescents were rescued 24 and children and adolescents were found in sports activities forest production activities to support agriculture rice cultivation bay coconut cultivation cattle raising wood products manufacturing charcoal production soybean cultivation and clothing clothing.Complaints Complaints of slave-like work are received by the Ministry of Labor and Employment by the Ipe System remotely and confidentially. Launched in 2020 in partnership with the International Labor Organization ILO by the Ipe System the Division of Supervision for the Eradication of Slave Labor received 1654 complaints an increase of 66 over the previous year.
