Brazil: setting criteria for access to the ‘special’ hazardous work pension

On 10 May Brazil’s Senate house unanimously approved a bill that establishes new rules to access a specific hazardous work related retirement pension, amending the originally instituted Law No. 3,807, of 26 August 1960 , which was modified in the 2019 pension reform (Constitutional Amendment 103/19). The text has now been sent to the Chamber of Deputies. The bill establishes criteria for entitlement to early retirement for members of the General Social Security System (RGPS) who are...