“Jinjiang Group, a contractor for Chinese electric car maker BYD, said Thursday that Brazilian authorities’ depiction of its workers as “slaves” was not true and that there had been a translation misunderstanding.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Jinjiang Group, a contractor for Chinese electric car maker BYD, said Brazilian authorities’ portrayal of its workers as “slaves” was inaccurate and that there had been a translation misunderstanding. Reuters writes about it. Brazilian labor authorities said they found 163 Chinese nationals working in “slave-like conditions” at a construction site at a factory owned by BYD. BYD said at the time that it had severed ties with the firm that hired the workers. “The unfair label of ‘enslaved’ has made our workers feel that their dignity has been insulted and their human rights violated, which has seriously affected the dignity of the Chinese people,” Jinjiang Group said.Advertisement: Their statement was reposted by Li Yunfei, general manager of branding and communication public relations of the BYD company. He accused “foreign forces” and some Chinese media of “deliberately defaming Chinese brands and the country and undermining China-Brazil relations.” BYD is building a 150,000-car-a-year plant initially in Brazil, the Chinese electric car giant’s biggest overseas market, as part of plans to start production there in 2024 or early 2025. Jinjiang Group said translation problems and cultural differences led to the situation, and that the Brazilian inspectors’ questions were provocative. The company also released a video showing a group of Chinese workers standing in front of a camera, with one of them reading a letter that the workers had jointly signed.Advertisement: The letter said, for example, that 107 workers had handed over their passports to the company for a temporary ID card. in Brazil Brazilian labor inspectors said the company confiscated the workers’ passports. To remind you: Brazilian officials found 163 Chinese nationals working in slave-like conditions at the construction site of a factory owned by Chinese electric car manufacturer BYD in the state of Bahia, Brazil.