Brazil: OAS construction group to pay a BRL 15 million fine for slavery

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20 November 2013 à 12h01

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OAS, the public construction company, one of the biggest in the country, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) for “maintaining 150 workers in a situation nearing slavery,” the Brazilian Minister of Employment and Labor announced on November 8, 2013. Employed for extension work at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, these people were rescued by the Ministry’s civil servants, alerted by a local civil engineering union. (Ref. 130722)

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OAS, the Brazilian construction company, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) following a judicial agreement signed with the Ministry of Labor and Employment on November 7, for employing 150 workers under conditions of near-slavery in the site for the extension of the international airport in São Paulo.

Already 4 deadly industrial accidents. OAS employs 55,000 people and is one of the biggest construction groups in Brazil. Thus, it was jointly awarded one of the...

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