The Senate approved this Tuesday (9) the project PL 5760/2023, which establishes measures to protect workers rescued from conditions similar to slavery. The text brings obligations for employers and also social protection measures for workers, such as inclusion in unemployment insurance, Social Security and the possibility of adopting protective measures, especially for domestic workers. Related news: MPT criticizes company mechanisms for controlling slave labor. Murders and cases of slave labor in the countryside are increasing in the country. The project will be sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The approved text amends the Unemployment Insurance law to guarantee the rescued worker up to six installments of the benefit. It also provides for the crossing of data from the National Register of Social Information to identify employers with suspicious links. Furthermore, the proposal amends the Maria da Penha Law to ensure emergency reception of rescued people, as well as inclusion in the Single Registry for Social Programs (CadÚnico). Housework In relation to domestic work, the project provides for the possibility of adopting urgent protective measures in situations of violence or submission to conditions similar to slavery.  According to the project's rapporteur, senator Paulo Paim (PT-RS), the measures may be determined by a judge, when there is evidence of violation of rights. Among the measures envisaged are the removal of the aggressor from the victim's home or place of work; prohibition of contact with the victim, their family and witnesses; prohibition of frequenting certain places to preserve the victim's integrity. The proposal also determines, in specific cases, the referral of the victim and their dependents to a protection or reception program and the referral of the rescued person to the social and psychosocial assistance network. The planned actions also give authorization for labor inspectors to enter homes with the consent of the employer or employee, without the need for a court order, when there is suspicion of labor exploitation. According to Paim, the objective is to make it possible to monitor and hold employers who practice slave labor, especially in homes, accountable. “Such innovations recognize that violence against domestic workers, especially female workers, is often crossed by power relations marked by gender, class and race, demanding firmer and swifter responses from the State,” he stated. The senator also said that the measure strengthens the network of fundamental guarantees for domestic workers.  “By bringing this dimension of special protection, the proposition reinforces the understanding that the dignity of domestic work must be ensured with the same intensity allocated to any other form of work, breaking with the historical tradition of marginalizing this activity”, he concluded.