Brazil’s public sector hit with lawsuits for COVID-19 labor abuses
FABIO TEIXEIRA and ALFREDO MERGULHAO DOZENS of local authorities and state-owned companies in Brazil are facing lawsuits accused of failing to protect workers including doctors and nurses from COVID-19, data obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. Labor prosecutors filed 69 lawsuits against city governments and state-controlled firms such as Banco do Brasil SA in the first half of the year for reported coronavirus labor abuses such as not providing workers with protective equipment. Local governments and other public sector bodies were the target of 30% of the 230 labor lawsuits related to the pandemic - more than…
