The forced labour register check is a Brazil local law check that OriginsNext runs for each farm on an Order. It looks up the CNPJs (Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica, the Brazilian company registration number) recorded for the farm's owner in the register of employers published by the MTE (Brazil's Ministry of Labour and Employment), often called the "Lista Suja", and saves the result as Evidence for that farm. You set it up through an Order's compliance requirements, using the template Local law compliance (farm), and start it from the Order's Compliance tab. This article explains how to set up the check, start it and read the results.
Note: The forced labour register check looks up the farm owner's CNPJs, not the farm's land, so it needs no farm boundary. It checks farms in Brazil.
What the forced labour register check looks for
The check looks up each CNPJ recorded for the farm's owner in the current edition of the MTE register. Every listing it finds for one of those CNPJs is shown under Findings. The check does not look at the farm's land: it shows what the register records for the owner's CNPJs.
If no valid CNPJ is recorded for the farm's owner, nothing is looked up and the result is Not checked, with the message "Not checked: no valid CNPJ is recorded for this farm's owner, so it was not looked up. Once the owner's CNPJ is added to its details, run the check again." If no copy of the register was available when the check ran, the result reads "Inconclusive: no copy of the register is available yet. Run the check again once it is."
Set up the check on an Order
To set up the forced labour register check, add a supporting requirement that uses the template Local law compliance (farm) to an Evidence Template used on Orders, then add that Evidence Template to the Order's compliance requirements:
Go to Evidence Tracking > Templates and open the Evidence Template you use on the Order, or click + Add evidence template to create one.
In the Supporting evidence requirements table, click Add requirement. The Add supporting evidence requirement window opens.
Enter a Requirement name, for example Forced labour register, and set Applied to to Location.
In Supporting evidence requirement, choose Local law compliance (farm).
Set Check against, for example to Ordered product locations, and in Location type choose the type you use for farms, for example Farm.
Under Modules required for compliance, tick Forced labour register. You can tick other checks on the same requirement too, for example Environmental embargoes.
Click Add requirement, then save the Evidence Template.
Open the Order, go to the Compliance tab and click Edit next to Order compliance requirements. In Evidence requirements, tick the Evidence Template and click Save.
For the other fields in the window, see How do I configure supporting requirements on an Evidence Template? For adding requirements to an Order, see How do I add compliance requirements to an Order?
Start the check
To start the forced labour register check on an Order:
Open the Order and go to the Compliance tab.
Under Order compliance requirements, click the requirement. Its panel lists the Order's farms.
Click Start Forced labour register assessment. If the requirement has more than one check ticked, the button reads Start assessment. One check runs for each farm, and its result is saved as Evidence for that farm.
The panel then sums up the checks, for example "4 of 4 locations checked · 1 with findings · 2 not checked", and each farm's row shows its result, for example Findings identified or Not checked. Click View on a row to open the farm's result.
A farm with no boundary is still checked, because this check uses the owner's CNPJs. If another check on the same requirement needs a boundary, the farm's row shows Boundary required next to the result of the checks that ran, and the requirement stays unmet until a boundary is added. When you start the checks again, a forced labour register result runs again if the owner's CNPJs have changed since it ran, or if it ran before a copy of the register was available.
Read the result
Each farm's result is Evidence numbered with the prefix LAW-. In the evidence details, the check has its own card, Forced labour register. The card shows its outcome first, such as Findings identified with the number of findings, then a line Owner's CNPJs looked up with each CNPJ that was checked. The card starts closed: click Show details to open it and Hide details to close it.
The details show:
The register edition the check used, on a line that starts "Register: MTE", and the note "A result is a snapshot of the register edition shown. A newer edition does not change it; run the check again to use it."
Findings: each listing, titled by the employer's name, with labelled fields such as Matched by (CNPJ of the owner), CNPJ, Employer, Workplace, State, Inspection year, Workers involved, Activity code (CNAE), Decision date, Listed on and Listing history.
This card has no map, because the check does not look at the farm's land. A check that has not run at a farm yet says "This check has not run at this farm yet."
Note: Anyone who can open the result can see its details, including the owner's CNPJs that were looked up. If the farm's evidence is shared with a buyer, the buyer can see them too.
Important: The forced labour register check gives a screening result against the MTE register edition shown. A finding is a screening result, not a legal finding, and how you use it in your due diligence is your decision.
For the environmental embargoes check, see How do I check a farm in Brazil for IBAMA environmental embargoes? For the indigenous lands check, see How do I check a farm in Brazil against indigenous lands? For what each status means, see What do the Evidence status labels mean?