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Brazil labor courts intensify electoral harassment warnings

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2026-08-04 14:33 UTC → 2026-08-04 21:58 UTC · added removed

In late July 2026 Brazil’s Superior Council of Labor Justice (CSJT) adopted resolution 452/2026, revising the 2023 rule on electoral harassment. The new regulation expands expanding the definition of harassment, requires electoral harassment in the workplace and requiring judges handling labor suits that contain such allegations to automatically notify the Ministry of Labor and the Electoral Prosecutor’s Office, and mandates Office. The resolution introduced electronic tagging, data transmission, transmission and monthly monitoring by regional labor courts. Within days, days the labor courts began issuing issued public warnings about the practice in workplaces as the election period approached. They highlighted warnings, citing recent rulings that penalised employers for coercing employees’ votes—such as a votes. A packaging firm in Rio Verde fined and was ordered to pay R$1,000 in moral damages, and damages to each employee for offering leave contingent on a company favored candidate’s victory, while a coaching firm in Vitória punished for dismissing was ordered to compensate a worker who dismissed saleswoman with R$8,000 after she refused to disclose her political preference. The courts urged workers to document and report any coercion to the Superior Labor Court and the Public Ministry of Labor. vote. On 4 August 2026 the Brazilian Labor Justice issued a further of Labor (Justiça do Trabalho) reiterated the warning, defining electoral harassment as emphasizing that any pressure, promise of benefits, threat of dismissal dismissal, or promise of benefits coercive meeting used by employers to influence votes. It reiterated the Rio Verde votes constitutes illegal electoral harassment. The notice added that violations may trigger labor, electoral and Vitória cases, noting the Rio Verde firm must pay R$1,000 in moral damages to each employee criminal sanctions, including fines, compensation, indirect termination and the Vitória firm must compensate the dismissed saleswoman with R$8,000. possible imprisonment. Workers were advised again urged to collect messages, recordings or witness statements and to report incidents to the Ministry of Public Labor, the Superior Labor Courts Court or the Public Ministry Council of Labor. the Superior Labor Justice.

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  1. 2026-08-04 21:58 UTC Brazil labor courts intensify electoral harassment warnings
  2. 2026-08-04 14:33 UTC Brazil labor courts intensify electoral harassment warnings
  3. 2026-08-04 11:22 UTC Brazil labor courts address electoral harassment

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