Brazil just sued Tesla’s biggest competitor from China for worker conditions ‘analogous to slavery’

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• Brazilian prosecutors sued BYD for allegedly bringing Chinese workers illegally to the country and then subjecting them to working conditions “analogous to slavery.” Workers building the company’s industrial plant in Camaçari, a city in the Brazilian state of Bahia, were purportedly crammed in dormitories and had their passports and a majority of their wages withheld.

Brazilian prosecutors are suing BYD, China’s biggest EV maker, accusing the company and two of its contractors of subjecting workers to conditions “analogous to slavery.”