Or vice-president Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) On Tuesday (12) he defended the debate on reducing the 6×1 working day – in which a person works six days and only has one day off per week. According to him, this discussion is a “worldwide trend”. “As technology advances, you can do more with fewer people and have a shorter journey,” he said yesterday, after speaking at COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Asked by journalists whether the proposal to end the 6×1 scale worries businesspeople and industry, Alckmin, who is also Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, said that “this is a debate that belongs to society and Parliament” and that the government has not yet discussed the matter.
Although the government has not committed to the proposal, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho, stated on Monday, 11th, in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter), that the reduction of working hours is “possible and healthy” as long as it results from a collective decision, and that, therefore, the proposal must be discussed in collective work conventions and agreements.
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A movement called the Life Beyond Work Movement (VAT), started by a tiktoker, defends the abolition of the 6×1 work regime, which is provided for in the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), in force for 81 years in the country.
The discussion gained momentum on social media and was taken over by federal deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP), who is campaigning to obtain 171 signatures from parliamentarians needed to file a Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC). Early yesterday afternoon, she said that she had already obtained 153 signatures in support of the text.
Candidate for the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, deputy Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) said yesterday that he was concerned about the proposal articulated by the PSOL deputy. “It worries me a lot, for example, this PEC that has now been recently presented, this 6 for 1, where a real movement was created on social media in favor of the PEC, which is a topic that we have and we will discuss, but not just listening to one side. We also have to listen to those who employ”, he declared, at a lunch with businesspeople in Brasília.
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“We have to listen to both sides, so that, from then on, we do not have the advancement of an agenda that could be harmful to the country tomorrow”, he reinforced, adding that he is neither against nor in favor of the deputy’s proposal.
“I’m not here saying I’m for or against it. I’m saying that Parliament has to, in its maturity, discuss these issues and discuss respecting those who think otherwise”, he said.
During his participation in the event with businesspeople, Motta also said he wanted to “advance a positive agenda” without harming job creation in the country. At the same lunch, the president of the Parliamentary Front for Entrepreneurship, deputy Joaquim Passarinho (PL-PA), referred to the PEC as a “bomb” within Congress.
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Established by the CLT in 1943, the 6×1 scale is 44 hours per week
The 44-hour working day per week was established in the country in 1943 by the CLT and endorsed in the 1988 Constitution. This working hours presupposes six days of work and one day of rest per week. The 6×1 scale is very common in commerce – street stores, shopping centers, supermarkets – and in service sector enterprises such as bars and restaurants, among others.
In Brazil, the discussion gained repercussion with digital influencer Rick Azevedo, creator of VAT, whose main banner is the end of the 6×1 scale. The movement began after Azevedo’s video outburst, published on his TikTok profile in September 2023, which received more than 123 thousand likes.
Driven by the movement, Azevedo was elected councilor in Rio de Janeiro this year, for PSOL. A petition proposed by VAT already has more than 1.4 million signatures.
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In her project, deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) proposes to change article 7 of the Constitution, reducing the working day to four days a week, limiting the week to 36 hours.
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