Brazil's top court backs São Paulo law penalizing companies for slave labor

The law addresses exploitation of workers subjected to conditions analogous to slavery in supply chains.

In a country where the wounds of forced labor have never fully healed, Brazil's Supreme Court affirmed on Wednesday that states need not wait for federal permission to act against corporate complicity in slavery. Nine of ten justices upheld a São Paulo law stripping companies of their tax standing when they profit from enslaved or near-enslaved labor, finding that the power to combat human exploitation belongs not to one level of government alone, but to all. The ruling transforms a 2013 state statute into a national template, already echoed in five other states, and sends a clear message to s

Brazil's top court backs São Paulo law penalizing companies for slave labor

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