Brazil: The authorities in Brazil on Tuesday have rescued around 163 laborers working in the condition of ‘slavery’ at a construction site of one of Electric vehicle company Build Your Dreams (BYD) in Camacari, Bahia.
The officials said that the workers employed in the outsourced company Jinjiang Group, faced degrading living and working conditions, including inadequate lodging, poor sanitation, and withheld wages.
In a statement issued by the Brazil MPT said, “The rescue of 163 workers who were being held in conditions analogous to slavery and the closure of the lodgings and parts of the construction site of the plant.
The car manufacturer Build Your Dreams (BYD) is installing a factory in the municipality of Camacari, in the metropolitan region of Salvador, was communicated on Monday morning to the company and to Jinjiang Group, one of the contractors hired to carry out the work.
The rescued workers will remain in the lodgings, but will not be able to work and will have their employment contracts terminated. “The embargoed accommodations and construction sites will also remain inactive until they are fully regularised with the agencies that make up the task force,” the statement added.
During the series of inspections, which began in mid-November and will continue over the next few days, 163 workers were identified in conditions analogous to slavery at the outsourced company Jinjang, a service provider for BYD.