The company will have to comply with six inspection measures and will have to pay BRL 600 thousand as collective moral damage, for having as cocoa suppliers rural producers who practiced child labor and slave-like labor.
Preventive actions are the necessary avenue to tackle slave-like labor in the country. Agência Brasil heard specialists who discuss the topic amid the large number of workers rescued in recent months.
The victims worked at a clandestine cigarette factory. They had arrived in the country blindfolded, did not know which city they were in, and declared they had contact with no one but one masked person with a gun.
Labor inspectors and the Federal Police rescued the victims in two ranches in a rural area in Maranhão state. Agents visited establishments and held interviews.
In just one of the operations, 116 people were rescued by the national mobile group. They worked in the harvesting of straw for cigarettes at Souza Paiol company.