On June 5, the Brazilian Congress promulgated constitutional amendment No. 81 on slave labor, which the Senate had unanimously voted a few days earlier. Shifted back and forth between the two Houses of Parliament, the text provides for the expropriation of owners employing workers under such conditions. However, its implementation remains hypothetical. To get the support of rural Senators and make sure that this emblematic text would be signed before the World Cup, the definition of slave labor was sent back to another text and could be weaker.
It’s a 15-year-old text against slavery that the Congress promulgated on Thursday, June 5, at a formal meeting. 9 days earlier (May 27), the Senate finally unanimously voted the famous draft constitutional amendment on slave labor, known as “PEC 57A.”
The 1999 text provides for the expropriation of land and real estate goods for the purpose of agrarian or popular housing reforms where there are slave labor practices – in which case the owners receive no compensation. Until now, article 243 of
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