Brazil: government prepares for a major reform to the Labor Code

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A draft reform of Brazil’s Labor Code, Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT), is expected to be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia on 25 April. Below Planet Labor outlines a summary of the main points that will be debated by the Deputies in the upcoming weeks.
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According to assistant-rapporteur for the draft, Rogério Marinho, the text contains a hundred or so modifications that seek to ‘modernize’ the code that was originally created over seventy years ago.

  • Collective agreements to take precedence over legislation. The government wants company negotiated collective agreements take precedence over sector CLT for a dozen specific subjects including legal working time, salaries, distribution of leave time and overtime hours.
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