According to the complaint, five people were carrying drinks for 12 hours a day, as reported by the website
The organization of Lollapalooza was notified by the Public Ministry of Labor of São Paulo, this Thursday (23), for work analogous to slavery. The complaint was made by the Reprter Brasil website and confirmed by the MPT-SP communication.
Lollapalooza takes place between Friday (24th) and Sunday (26th), at the Interlagos race track, in the south zone of So Paulo.
According to the news, five people worked as beverage carriers for 12 hours a day, and were forced to sleep in tents. Still according to the report, the professionals worked informally, without labor records.
The five rescued people provided services to Yellow Stripe, a third-party company contracted by T4F, which owns Lollapalooza. To Reprter Brasil, labor inspector Rafael Brisque Neiva, who participated in the rescue operation, said that the employees were between 22 and 29 years old.
“They had no dignity, they slept inside an open canvas tent and stayed on the ground. They were not given toilet paper, mattresses, protective equipment, nothing,” he said.
In a note, T4F, responsible for organizing Lollapalooza in Brazil, said it ended the ‘legal relationship established with Yellow Stripe and made sure that all the rights of the 5 workers involved were guaranteed in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Labor auditors. ‘.
On Instagram, Yellow Stripe only informed that it will no longer provide services at the festival, “and for this reason, all employees and service providers allocated and contracted by Yellow Stripe for this purpose should not attend the event on the 24th, March 25 & 26, 2023,” he wrote.
Read Lollapalooza’s full note below:
“To hold an event the size of Lollapalooza Brasil, which occupies 600,000 square meters at the Interlagos Circuit and is estimated to receive an audience of 100,000 people per day, the event has teams that work on different work fronts, in departments ranging from communication to food and beverage operation, from setting up the stages to cleaning the space and security. There are more than 9,000 people who work directly at the venue and more than 170 service providers are hired.
T4F, responsible for organizing Lollapalooza Brasil, has as a priority that all people involved in the event have the proper working conditions guaranteed and, therefore, requires that all service providers do the same.
This week, during an inspection by the Ministry of Labor at the Interlagos Racetrack, 5 professionals from Yellow Stripe (a third-party company responsible for operating the bars at Lollapalooza Brazil) were identified, who, in the auditors’ view, would fit into work analogous to slavery. They worked for 5 days inside the Interlagos Circuit and, as verified by the auditors, slept in the workplace, something strictly prohibited by T4F.
Faced with this finding, T4F immediately terminated the legal relationship established with Yellow Stripe and made sure that all the rights of the 5 workers involved were guaranteed in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Labor auditors. T4F considers this to be an isolated fact, vehemently repudiates it and will continue to take a strong stance in the face of any non-compliance with rules by outsourced companies“
