The Santa Catarina labor court ordered a company to pay R$10,000,000 in compensation to a transgender woman for refusing to hire her for a job opening for which she was approved.
The transgender woman passed all three stages of a company’s selection process, but when she submitted her documentation to formalize her hiring, she was dismissed by the company, which lacked technical support to register her legal name. The woman was still in the process of updating her documentation.
The judge who heard the case understood that there had been a violation of the constitutional principle of human dignity, constituting a discriminatory act.
