Minister Luiz Marinho (Labor and Employment) was against the proposal to change the Constitution to reduce the 6×1 working day – six days worked for one day off – which, for him, should be discussed in collective agreements and not in legislation.
The speech was against a mobilization that took over social media this weekend regarding a Proposed Amendment to the Constitution by federal deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP), which defends a reduction to 4×3, that is, four days worked for three of rest.
“The MTE (Ministry of Labor and Employment) believes that this issue should be addressed in conventions and collective agreements between companies and employees. However, the ministry considers that reducing the 40-hour working week is fully possible and healthy, given a collective decision,” he said.
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The deputy’s proposal suggests a constitutional amendment to article 7, and needs the support of 171 parliamentarians to be implemented. The ministry began to be criticized on social media for not supporting the change.
“The Ministry of Labor and Employment-MTE has been closely following the debate on the end of the 6×1 work schedule. This is a topic that requires the involvement of all sectors in an in-depth and detailed discussion, taking into account the specific needs of each area, as there are sectors of the economy that operate uninterruptedly”, he added.
Erika Hilton proposed the change as a form of provocation to Congress in the face of an “extremely scrapped worker condition”. The parliamentarian, however, did not even present an economic impact on the Brazilian reality with the change, and said that it was only based on what other countries have been adopting.
In addition to impacting companies’ productivity, reducing working hours while maintaining remuneration, as stated in the PEC, can even have adverse effects on companies’ productivity and even put pressure on inflation.
In her networks, the deputy states that the 6×1 scale “takes away the worker’s right to spend time with their family, to take care of themselves, to have fun, to look for another job or even to qualify for a better job”. “The 6×1 scale is a prison, and is incompatible with the dignity of the worker,” he wrote.
