Weekly Report - 21 July 2016 (WR-16-28)

BRAZIL | Petrobras. Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras has elaborated a new ‘Ethics Code and Conduct Guide’ that is to be signed by “ALL” employees by 26 July. The oil workers’ federation, Federação Única dos Petroleiros [FUP, the labour union representing Petrobras workers], linked to the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) of the left-wing Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), is against this initiative, describing it as very “vague”. It also criticised the fact that any worker who refuses to sign the initiative will have his or her access to Petrobras’s internet system blocked.

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