Law determines the registration of companies that make use of a regime analogous to slavery
The (Supreme Federal Court) will judge this Wednesday (19.mar.2025), from 14h, the combating slave labor, sanctioned in 2013 by the then governor of São Paulo, (then PSDB, current PSB). ADI (Direct Unconstitutionality Action), proposed by CNC (National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services and Tourism), questions Law 14.946/2013.
The São Paulo legislation states that companies that were convicted in the second instance in court for exploitation of labor analogous to slavery have the revoked state registration. The CNC argues that the law imposes the accountability of commercial establishments for criminal acts practiced by third parties, not by themselves.
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After requesting the Supreme Court to pronounce, the (Attorney General’s Office) considered the excerpt from the legislation that holds members of companies caught with slave labor unconstitutional, preventing them from acting in the same sector for a decade in São Paulo.
On the other hand, the (General Advocacy of the Union) argued that the State exceeded the limits of federal competence.
Entities linked to human rights and the fight against slave labor showed concern about the possibility of São Paulo law being considered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
According to organizations as part of the (National Commission for the Eradication of Slave Labor), a decision in this sense would represent “An immeasurable setback in the advances of the state to curb the criminal practice of slave labor in Brazil”And would reinforce the“impunity of those who use this violation of human rights“Read A, published on March 13, the first date of the trial forecast. (PDF – 63.5 KB).
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