Politics · Brazil · 11 hrs ago
Brazil to issue guidance on ending the six-day workweek
Brazil has approved a constitutional amendment to end the six-days-on, one-day-off work schedule.
It reduces the standard workweek from 44 hours to 40 hours in two stages, without changing pay.
The first stage takes effect on December 16, bringing the workweek down to 42 hours and giving workers two paid days off each week.
Labour Minister Luiz Marinho says a decree will explain how employers should apply the new rules and guide collective bargaining.
The decree is expected after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns from the COP-31 climate conference and an Asean summit, likely next week.
The guidance is meant to help workplaces arrange the changes without altering monthly pay, while some occupations with different schedules will need separate laws.
Brazil’s labor minister says a decree guiding companies on the end of the six-day workweek is expected after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns from overseas trips.
The decree will explain how companies can apply a constitutional amendment that introduces a 40-hour workweek in two stages without changing pay.
Labor Minister Luiz Marinho says the decree will guide collective bargaining and support arrangements that provide two days of weekly rest.
The amendment was promulgated on October 16, and its first stage takes effect on December 16.
That stage cuts the workweek from 44 hours to 42 hours and gives workers two paid days off each week.
- Who
- Brazil’s government, through Labor Minister Luiz Marinho, is preparing the guidance for employers.
- What
- A decree will explain how companies can adapt to the constitutional amendment ending the six-day workweek.
- When
- It is expected after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returns from overseas trips, likely the following week. The amendment’s first stage takes effect on December 16.
- Where
- Brazil.
- Why
- To guide companies and collective bargaining on applying the new workweek and rest-day rules without changing monthly pay.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Congress promulgated the constitutional amendment ending the six-day workweek.
The decree was expected to be published, but Lula’s overseas travel delayed it.
The decree is expected after Lula returns from the COP-31 climate conference and the ASEAN summit.
The amendment’s first stage takes effect, cutting the workweek from 44 hours to 42 and giving workers two paid days off each week.
- Workweek under the amendment
- 40 hours a week in two stages
- First-stage workweek
- 42 hours, down from 44
- First-stage effective date
- December 16
- Weekly rest
- Two paid days off each week
- Amendment promulgated
- October 16
- Decree expected
- After Lula returns from COP-31 and the ASEAN summit
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What people are saying
The reduction of the workweek to 40 hours in two stages. Without reducing wages and without increasing wages. It has to be neutral from that point of view.
The decree is to say: this is the factor you will use to have a zero effect.
The decree will serve as a basis for collective bargaining.