According to Repórter Brasil, in Forquilhinha (in Santa Catarina state), a company outsourced by JBS for chicken picking activities, which involve placing chickens into boxes and loading them onto trucks, had nine chicken pickers rescued in 2025 due to conditions analogous to slavery.

According to G1, in Vidal Ramos (in Santa Catarina state), an inspection by the Ministry of Labor rescued nine pickers from conditions analogous to slavery from a company outsourced by JBS. As a result of the case, the JBS unit in Vidal Ramos (Santa Catarina), JBS Aves LTDA, was added to the “dirty list” of labor analogous to slavery published on July 27, 2017, because the labor auditor considered that the company is responsible, since it controls the outsourced company’s chicken picking routine.