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Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers

When IBM posted an ad for a remote job in Brazil last September, it included a caveat: “IBM, for institutional reasons, will not hire residents of Minas Gerais, even though this is a remote position.”

The company’s move to exclude workers from the southeastern Brazilian state, home to 20.5 million people, came after IBM lost a lawsuit to the local union. In 2015, the IT workers’ union in the state sued the tech company for listing its employees as traders and not tech workers, making them ineligible for a series of attractive benefits. In 2018, a regional court ruled in favor of the union, forcing IBM to recognize it as the legal representative of IBM employees in the state.

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