Employee will be compensated for being forced to perform a sexual dance

A former employee of a company will be compensated for having been forced to perform a sexually suggestive dance during working hours. The decision was handed down by the substitute Labor judge of the 2nd Labor Court of São Paulo/SP, Renata Orsi Bulgueroni, in December. The judge understood that the harmful work environment to which the employee was subjected had been proven, and compensation for moral damages was due. The company will have to pay R$20,000 and collect differences from the Service Time Guarantee Fund (FTGS) for the former employee.

In the sentence, the judge also points out that the employee, who worked as a business attendant for two months during the trial period, would have been exposed to other humiliating conduct. In addition to being forced to dance, a fact proven in the video presented in the action, the employee was forced to “put a rubber witch’s nose on her waist and rub it on her colleagues’ lower parts”.

In her decision, the judge highlighted that the video presented “provides robust proof of the harmful work environment to which she was subjected on a daily basis”. “The fact is that, in the aforementioned media, employees of the defendant can be seen subjected to the humiliation of performing several dances in front of other colleagues (including the “bottle mouth” dance), in a vexatious and extremely unpleasant situation – in addition to being completely inappropriate in a workplace,” the judge wrote in the ruling.