Brazil Worker Found Listed as President for 24 Years as City Blames Data Migration
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Updated · www1.folha.uol.com.br · May 20
Brazil Worker Found Listed as President for 24 Years as City Blames Data Migration
2 articles · Updated · www1.folha.uol.com.br · May 20
Aldenize Ferreira da Silva, 46, discovered during a job application that official labor databases showed her as holding the post of “president of the Republic” for 24 years and two months.
The record is tied to Jaboatão dos Guararapes city hall’s tax registration, appears in Rais, Caged and Brazil’s digital work card system, and has remained marked as an open employment link since March 14, 2002.
Jaboatão city hall said the error arose when old records were migrated to the eSocial platform, causing some workers in generic commissioned roles to be wrongly classified in certain databases as “president of the Republic.”
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