An inspection carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Employment at the facilities of Lollapalooza, a music festival that takes place between Friday (24) and Sunday (26) in São Paulo, claims to have found workers in degrading conditions.
Five men who worked for a subcontractor told labor inspectors that they were sleeping among boxes of drinks, on pallets and mattresses, in tents set up inside the Lollapalooza complex at the Interlagos Hippodrome, in the south zone of São Paulo. The vigil would be necessary to guarantee the safety of the goods.
The event producer T4F, organizer of the festival, said in a note that it requires all service providers to guarantee the working conditions of their employees and that it has terminated the contract with the subcontracted company.
According to the Ministry of Labor, these workers were not registered. Due to the degrading conditions and the difficulties imposed for the workers to return to their homes, the inspection considered that a situation of work analogous to that of slavery existed.
TRANSLATED BY AZAHARA MARTÍN ORTEGA
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