Brazil: temporary extension of unemployment insurance

ided to temporarily extend unemployment insurance for workers dismissed in some sectors badly hit by the crisis. Those workers will receive unemployment benefits for seven months instead of five. (Ref. 090180)

The Executive
Council of the Worker Assistance Fund (Conselho
Deliberativo do Fundo de Amparo ao Trabalhador, CODEFAT), answering to the Brazilian
Minister of Labor and Employment, approved a two-month extension for the
unemployment insurance, raising the maximum limit to seven months ins