Brazil: impact of final adoption of the Labor Code reform

On 13 July and as expected, Brazil’s President Michel Temer enacted the law that the Senate had adopted the previous week. Seen as the most significant reform since the establishment seventy years ago of the Labor Code (the Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho (CLT)) this new law will come into force within 120 days (November 2017). The new law will apply to all contracts and not just those signed after November.
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The newly adopted text comprises more than a hundred changes to current regulations governing work organization. The text also comprises articles that completely overhaul some fundamental principles such as the roles for actors within companies as well as others that tinker with ancillary points but all of which aim to modernize the CLT. In the upcoming weeks some aspects of the new legislation may well be altered through a series of ‘temporary measures’ as a result of government promises in a

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