A company was ordered to pay R$3,000 to an employee for moral damages, after a boss declared he was “too beautiful to be gay” and threatened to fire him if he did not meet targets. The information is from G1. The decision was made by the Goiás Court.
The court ruling stated that the employee experienced “humiliation and embarrassment” at the company, primarily because of his sexual orientation.
“Discriminatory behavior in the workplace, through homophobic statements, clearly contravenes legal and social norms of harmony and good coexistence in the workplace, and is serious enough to justify compensation for moral damage,” the decision said.
The decision was given on July 9 this year by the Regional Labor Court of the 18th Region, in Goiânia. The court stated that the moral damage affected the victim’s image, honor, privacy, intimacy and self-esteem and ordered the payment of compensation of R$3,000.
*With information from Metropoles
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