The businesswoman from Santa Catarina who offended Northeasterners and advised her clients not to hire people from the Northeast region signed an agreement with the MPT (Ministry of Labor) and recorded a new video apologizing.
“Today I came to the public to portray myself and apologize to all Brazilian society, especially to the northeast, or to anyone who may have felt affected by my statement, for having expressed myself so wrongly in the video I published on the day of elections”, he says.
“Electoral harassment is a crime and no employer, be it from any sector, has the right to interfere with the vote of its employees. worker to vote or not to vote for a certain candidate. It is inadmissible and constitutes a crime for workers from any region of Brazil to be discriminated against.”
In a video published on October 2, Jacira Paula Revers Chiamenti asked entrepreneurs to “close the doors” of their companies to Northeasterners. In the first round, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) had more votes than President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in all states in the region.
“What we have most is a license that we sign at the companies of these bastards from the northeast who go hungry there and come here to sell hammocks on the beach, ask for a job as a bricklayer and sleep in front of our establishments”, he said in the first recording.
“If they chose Lula, let them stay in their state, voting for Lula and eating their Bolsa FamÃlia. The businesswoman is a partner at Contasul Contabilidade, in the municipality of Itapema (SC).
The agreement with the MPT of Santa Catarina was signed on Tuesday (18). In addition to recording and disseminating the video on all the company’s social networks, the woman pledged not to fire or hire employees solely because of their partisan political orientation.
The businesswoman will also not be able to threaten, embarrass and guide her employees or people looking for work or incite other employers to do so. The fine is BRL 40,000 for each of the breached obligations.
Jacira must also pay R$ 25 thousand for collective moral damages. Around R$16,000 will be used to pay for insertions of the MPT awareness campaign on radio stations in the region between October 24th and 28th. The rest will be donated to an association in Florianópolis.
The MPT received 903 complaints of electoral harassment against 750 companies until this Thursday (20). Ten days before the second round of the elections, this year’s campaign numbers already exceed those of 2018, when the MPT recorded 212 complaints against 98 businessmen.
HOW AND WHERE TO REPORT
The MPT suggests that workers file complaints with as much material evidence as possible, such as documents, images and text or audio messages. They can be made all over Brazil and anonymously through the website of the Public Ministry of Labor.
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