Given the great repercussion on social media in recent days, it has already exceeded 100 signatures and could reach, this week, the minimum number of 171 supports necessary to begin processing in the National Congress.
The evaluation is by the author of the text, the federal deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP)interviewed this Monday (11) by the portal UOL.
The proposal also provides for a reduction in the limit on the number of hours worked during the week – from the current 44 to 36. As of early this afternoon, 108 parliamentarians had signed the request for the PEC to begin processing in Congress.
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“The work model we have today in Brazil is an extremely exploratory model. Workers do not have the opportunity to study, to improve themselves, to qualify professionally to change careers, for example. It is a scale that only serves the interests of the businessman and the employer, scrapping, making working life vulnerable and precarious in our country”, stated Erika Hilton, in the interview.
“We propose a reduction in working hours. But you know very well that a PEC requires a specific number of signatures and, once these signatures are reached, we will have a rapporteur. We have a vision of which model to implement within the text of the PEC. But we are not working with this round, closed, as if there could be no space”, continues the parliamentarian.
According to Hilton, the idea of presenting the PEC aimed to make the topic begin to be debated in society.
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“The PEC was filed so that we could raise the debate in society. We hope to reach, this week, the 171 signatures needed so that a rapporteur can be appointed and, from there, talk to the benches, the deputies, the working class, the business community, so that we can find the best format to meet the demand of both those who work and those who employ”, says the PSOL deputy.
Despite the possibility of the text beginning to be processed in Congress, Erika Hilton says she is aware that the chances of approval of the PEC, at least at this moment, are low.
“Seeing the movements that have taken place in recent days, I think it will be a little difficult for the right not to commit to this agenda. Especially because it is the right itself that shouts from the rooftops to defend the working class, economic freedom and has tried to co-opt this debate about labor rights and workers’ lives a little”, says Hilton.
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“And now we have a simple debate, which each and every worker can understand the magnitude of the impact of that on their life and, consequently, will hold their parliamentarian accountable.”
Long way
As it is a constitutional amendment, the votes of ⅗ of the deputies and senators are required, in two rounds of voting in each House of Congress, for the PEC to be approved. In the Chamber, this represents 308 deputies; in the Senate, 49 senators.
Before reaching the plenary, the PEC needs to go through a long process in the Legislature. The text has its constitutionality analyzed by the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) and is then forwarded to a special commission.
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“The most precarious workers within this work scale are workers who attend churches, where we have a large presence of these politicians, who live and are on the outskirts of our country. They are the base of this social pyramid, which is where this spectrum of politics seeks their vote and has fought hard”, says Erika Hilton. “Now, we have an agenda that unifies most of the best country, which clarifies for workers, without complex debate, without elaborate language, it is about their work.”
According to the deputy, however, “the thermometer shows us that [a aprovação da PEC] It’s going to be very difficult.” “I don’t doubt anything about these people. They are able to pull a rabbit out of the hat, invent a fictional narrative and try not to commit to that agenda.”
