An inspection carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Employment at the premises of the Lollapalooza festival, a music festival that takes place between Friday (24) and Sunday (26) in São Paulo, claims to have caught workers in degrading conditions.
Five men who worked for a service provider told labor inspectors that they were sleeping among bales of beverages, on top of pallets and sleeping bags, in tents set up inside the Lollapalooza complex at the Interlagos Racetrack, in the south area of São Paulo. The vigil was supposedly necessary to guarantee the safety of the goods.
The Production company T4F, organizer of the festival, said in a note that it requires all service providers to guarantee working conditions for their employees and that they had terminated the contract with the outsourced company.
According to the Ministry of Labor, these workers were not under a formal contract. Due to the degrading conditions and difficulties imposed on the workers to return home, the inspection considered that there was a situation of work analogous to slavery.
Translated by Cassy Dias