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Common themes of Global Compact and SA 8000<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Employment and Labor Relations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Global Compact’s labor relations dimension covers four principles dealing with basic values, such as concern for collectivity, diversity, eradication of slave labor and child labor. The adoption of specific policies and practices on these themes is encouraged by both the Global Pact and SA 8000, and the following four practices are mentioned in both documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practice 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Support freedom of association and the effective right to collective agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means: recognizing the individual right to trade union membership and rejecting any practice that discriminates against trade union members or representatives and managers in the category. It also means recognizing the representativeness of these institutions by collectively negotiating benefits to workers represented by trade unions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practice 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Elimination of all forms of forced labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means: that the company must fight and condemn any form of forced labor, respecting and practicing the employment and labor relationship in an assertive manner. The company must guarantee the worker’s right to freedom, preserving his right to come and go. The company shall not withhold personal documents from employees, withhold wages as a security measure and shall respect the worker’s freedom to leave after the end of his work shift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Brazil, slave labor is a crime, foreseen in article 149 of the Penal Code and transcribed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Art. 149: To reduce someone to a condition analogous to slavery, either by subjecting him\/her to forced labor or to exhaustive days, or by subjecting him\/her to degrading working conditions, or by restricting, by any means, his\/her locomotion due to a debt contracted with the employer or the employee”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth mentioning that forced labor includes compulsory labor to pay previous debt or prisoner labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practice 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Effective abolition of child labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means: fighting and condemning any form of child labor, paid or unpaid, preserving the child’s time for his or her education, training and leisure rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under Brazilian law, the minimum age for adolescents to work is 14 years old, supported by Federal Law 10,097, enacted in 2000 and known as the Learning Law. This law is aimed at low-income young people and aims to value them, train them and prepare them for the future job market. The workload is reduced and their rights to remuneration based on the minimum wage and to study are guaranteed. Get to know the essence of this Law in the wording of Art. 428 and its First Paragraph, which we transcribe below:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Art. 428. Apprenticeship contract is the special employment contract, adjusted in writing and for a fixed term, in which the employer undertakes to ensure to those over fourteen and under eighteen years of age, enrolled in an apprenticeship program, methodical technical-professional training, compatible with their physical, moral and psychological development, and the apprentice, to perform, with zeal and diligence, the tasks necessary for such training”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Paragraph 1 – The validity of the apprenticeship contract presupposes annotation in the Work and Social Security Cards, enrollment and attendance of the apprentice at school, in case he\/she has not concluded elementary school, and enrollment in an apprenticeship program developed under the guidance of a qualified entity in methodical technical-professional training”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practice 4<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Eliminate discrimination related to employment and occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means:  <\/p>\n\n\n