Brazil: Company fined for recruiting indigenous adolescents to harvest cane
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Lawsuit concerns deaths resulting from illegal work in cane harvest
[Translation of an article from Brasil de Fato for September 16. See original article here and related article here.]
The deputy labor division judge in Amambai, Antonio Arraes Branco Avelino, has ordered the companies Agrisul Agrícola Ltda and Companhia Brasileira de Açúcar e Álcool (CBAA) of Sidrolândia, known as the Santa Olinda mill, to pay compensation of five million reais [about 2.9 million US dollars] for personal injury and to stop contracting adolescent workers to harvest sugar cane. (more…)