Ratinho is convicted of slave labor.
Brazilian TV presenter Carlos Roberto Massa, known as Ratinho, was ordered to pay R$ 200 in damages for collective moral harm. According to the Superior Labor Court (TST), he kept employees on his rural property in conditions analogous to slavery, without providing safety equipment, adequate housing, or food. The complaint alleges that employees at the Esplanada Farm in Limeira do Oeste (São Paulo state) had to eat in the fields and in the bathrooms. Ratinho also allegedly recruited people in Maranhão and Bahia, hiring them under irregular circumstances.
Forum Magazine - SBT presenter Carlos Roberto Massa, known as Ratinho, was ordered to pay R$ 200 in damages for collective moral harm. According to the Superior Labor Court (TST), he kept employees on his rural property in conditions analogous to slavery, without providing safety equipment, lodging, or adequate food.
According to the complaint, employees at the Esplanada Farm in Limeira do Oeste (SP) had to eat in the fields and in the bathrooms. Ratinho also allegedly recruited people in Maranhão and Bahia, hiring them under irregular circumstances.
The presenter had already been ordered to pay R$ 1 million in damages for collective moral harm in the same lawsuit by the Labor Court of Minas Gerais, after the Labor Public Prosecutor's Office (MPT) in Uberlândia filed a Public Civil Action (ACP) against him.
Carlos Massa appealed and managed to have the damages claim dismissed, but the Public Prosecutor's Office went to the Superior Labor Court (TST), pointing to violations of articles and laws, as well as jurisprudential divergence, and the ministers accepted the appeal. In a statement released by his press office, he denied the accusations.