Brazil puts China's BYD on list of shame for workers' past slavery-like conditions

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Brazil has put China’s BYD

on a registry of employers who have subjected workers to conditions similar to slavery, after a 2024 scandal in which Chinese workers were said to have been victims of human trafficking and abusive contracts.

The list, published by Brazil’s Labor Ministry, carries further reputational risk for the automaker in its biggest market after China.

It also bars BYD from obtaining certain types of loans from Brazilian banks, but does not affect the operation of its sole auto plant in the country that the workers were hired to build.

Brazil puts China's BYD on list of shame for workers' past slavery-like conditions

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