In response to the post published on 24^th April on the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre website (which links to an O Tempo article on allegations of slave labour at the Brazilian project, Minas Rio) Anglo American would like to make the following statement...The MTE has stated that some employees were working over and above legislated hours and that their working hours were deemed to produce an environment that was classified as slave labour.  We strongly disagree with this definition...Anglo American is in discussions with the MTE to appeal this ruling...With regards to future action...[we] have been working to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights since they were introduced.