While former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – leader in polls in this year’s presidential race – proposes to revoke the labor reform in force since November 2017, experts defend deepening it.
For them, there is no way to generate jobs without economic growth, but the reform of the Michel Temer government would have left out points that could boost job creation once and for all.
Lula is inspired by the “counter-reform” passed in Spain by just one vote difference last week, reversing much of the changes made in 2012.
The new law seeks to reduce the high percentage of temporary workers in the country, which today reaches 25% – the highest among the 27 countries of the European Union.
The labor economist and professor at the University of São Paulo José Pastore warns that care must be taken when taking the Spanish government’s move as an example.
“Conditions are very different between the two countries’ labor markets. After the 2008 crisis, Spain created several modalities of ‘shredded work’: per hour, per job, per project. These modalities were eroding the protections of workers, some even disappeared, unlike the Brazilian case”, he said, in a virtual debate held by FecomercioSP that airs today.
Pastore recalls that temporary work has been regulated in Brazil since 1974, with rules that guarantee all labor rights.
“Likewise, intermittent work, part-time work and telework (modalities created in the 2017 reform) have all the rights of the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws). That’s not our problem, it’s informality. Ending temp work is not going to turn everything into stable, definitive work,” he said.
Economist Fernando de Holanda Barbosa Filho, a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Economics (Ibre) at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), stressed that the labor framework needs to encompass the possibilities of remote work boosted during the pandemic.
“If we don’t adapt Brazilian legislation, Brazilian workers will be left behind,” he said. “A new world has opened up with the pandemic. If I work remotely from here in Brazil for an American company, which legislation is valid? You have to make the rules of the game very clear.”
The information is from the newspaper. The State of São Paulo.
Source: CNN Brasil
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