Labor Ministry's Raid Rescues MRV Workers Subjected to Slave Labor in RS; Construction Company Has a Long History on the Matter

Labor Ministry’s Raid Rescues MRV Workers Subjected to Slave Labor in RS; Construction Company Has a Long History on the Matter

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 25/05/2021 at 08:37

Updated on 25/05/2021 at 09:26

Trabalhadores em obras de construção civil da construtora MRV / Fonte: Reprodução – Via Google

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Gruesome Details Are Reported by MTE Auditors Involving Slave Labor at MRV Construction Sites in Macaé, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Curitiba.

An operation by the Public Ministry of Labor, involving the company MRV, rescued 16 workers in conditions akin to slavery at two of the company’s establishments located in São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul. The MRV Construction Company is owned by Rubens Menin, who also holds 100% of CNN Brazil. This is not the first time this has happened; the businessman has a history of lawsuits involving this type of situation.

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According to the Public Ministry of Labor of Rio Grande do Sul, the victims, who were recruited in cities in the interior of Maranhão, “were suffering deductions for a ‘basic basket,’ which further reduced the chances of workers being able to gather the conditions to leave the place and return to their state.”

**Source: Reproduction – Via Diario do Centro do Mundo**

MRV Has an Extensive “Curriculum” of Sanctions for the Same Reason

Gruesome details were reported in a report by five labor auditors from the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE) in 2014, involving a construction site of MRV in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. In this operation, 118 workers were rescued from such violations.

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MRV Hires Contractors to “Camouflage” Slave Labor and Transfer Responsibility to These Small Companies

The labor was done by companies outsourced by the construction company to exempt itself and transfer the responsibility to these small companies.

Only between 2004 and 2012, the MRV construction company faced 3,029 labor lawsuits, with an absolute concentration (74%) from 2009 to 2011.

Rubens Menin has been leading various actions since 2014 to prevent the names of companies that exploit workers from being disclosed. On several occasions, the businessman managed to have the name of the MRV construction company removed from the so-called “dirty list of slave labor.”

The first action by the businessman resulted in the suspension of the list by the Supreme Court, from the end of 2014 until May 2016. In March 2017, the Temer government again blocked the disclosure of the ‘dirty list,’ which was only considered constitutional by the Supreme Court again in September 2020.

If institutions do not take seriously the absurdities practiced by Rubens Menin, he will remain free to subject workers to the most inhumane conditions possible.

The MRV construction company is present in approximately 100 municipalities across 17 Brazilian states, and Rubens Menin’s company is the largest contractor operating the federal housing program Minha Casa Minha Vida.

Labor Ministry’s Raid Rescues MRV Workers Subjected to Slave Labor in RS; Construction Company Has a Long History on the Matter

Gruesome Details Are Reported by MTE Auditors Involving Slave Labor at MRV Construction Sites in Macaé, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Curitiba.

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MRV Hires Contractors to “Camouflage” Slave Labor and Transfer Responsibility to These Small Companies

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