World Cup Brazil 2014

Last year, the President of CBF announced that there was an idea to employ ex-convicts in the building of the stadiums of the World Cup 2014.

In Brazil, there is a huge supply of uneducated workers, which makes it very difficult for ex-convicts (most of them with little or no formal education) to find a job; using the World Cup to give a chance to those people seems like a good initiative.

Fortunately, the idea seems to be coming true.

The Governor of Brasilia announced that he just authorized the works in the National Stadium (the contract had been signed last week), and that 5% of the 1,500 workers will be ex-convicts (see also this CBF note).

These workers are in open or semi-open regimes, which means that they still have to report periodically to the prisons. Salary was not informed; minimum wage in Brazil is R$ 510, a bit less than US$ 300 – and workers have transportation and food assistance, plus social security.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 2:27 pm and is filed under cities, stadium.