Juiz de Fora company is convicted of keeping employee in forced idleness

A telemarketing company, based in Juiz de Fora (MG), will have to pay R$ 5,500 for moral damages to a former employee who was subjected to forced idleness. The decision is made by Judge Tarcísio Correa de Brito, holder of the 5ª Labor Court of Juiz de Fora, who also recognized the indirect termination of the professional’s employment contract, with the payment of the termination amounts due.

The former employee said that she was admitted in May 2015 and that she left the service, receiving Social Security Assistance, from 2016 to 2019. He explained that after rehabilitation by the INSS, he returned to work. However, according to her, the company did not provide a suitable place, being subjected to forced idleness.

The employee in the files also claimed that, after this return, she suffered several constraints. In his application, he stated that, since his badge did not pass through the turnstile, he had to ask for access to a supervisor every day.

The decision was made by Judge Tarcísio Correa de Brito understood that the acts of the employer fall under Article 483 of the CLT, by not providing work to the worker. Also, that he committed an act harmful to the honor of the professional by leaving her unjustifiably at leisure and not providing a definitive password and card. For this reason, it recognized the indirect termination of the employment contract, on the date of publication of the judgment, ordering the company to pay the termination sums due.

For the magistrate, compensation for moral damage was also due, in the amount of R$ 5.500, for understanding that “the situation experienced of discrimination and idleness caused pain and anguish in the telemarketing attendant”