Unofficial summary in English. The judgment is published in Portuguese only, and only the Portuguese text is authentic.
Algoa Cabinda Fabrication Services, Limitada appealed against a judgment of the Labour Chamber of the Supreme Court that declared a collective dismissal null and ordered it to reinstate the workers and pay their back wages, although reinstatement had not been requested, invoking the right to a fair trial. The Court dismissed the appeal because reinstatement is the legal consequence of an unlawful dismissal and labour courts may award beyond or other than what was claimed.
Decision
Appeal dismissed
Type of proceedings
Extraordinary appeal on grounds of unconstitutionality (Recurso Extraordinário de Inconstitucionalidade)
Full text
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