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What is Moral damages (dano moral)?
Also: dano moral · moral damages · non-pecuniary damages
Labor moral damages is compensation for harm to the worker’s personality rights: moral or sexual harassment, degrading conditions, humiliating searches, undue exposure. It requires proof of the fact and the causal link — it is not presumed.
It is one of the claims with the lowest grant rate, because it depends on robust proof.
Observed grant pattern: about 40% of merits decisions on this award (base: real Labor Court cases).
How LABORIS AI uses it
LABORIS AI weighs the claim by the grant pattern and the existing evidence, avoiding provisioning for the worst case where conviction is unlikely.
Legal basis
CLT, arts. 223-A a 223-GCF, art. 5º, XCC, arts. 186 e 927
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Informational content — it is not legal advice.