president of the CUT, tells the Panel that the largest union center in the country has defended the union since its foundation in 1983, and that it is a necessary, urgent and urgent issue.
However, he states that Congress today has hegemony of representatives of the Brazilian business community, and that therefore popular pressure will have to be enormous for the project to move forward.
“The conditions exist. This story that Brazil is going to go bankrupt is nonsense. In fact, productivity has improved in countries that have reduced their workload, which has been good for companies. The big challenge is popular pressure. If it isn’t there, it won’t pass in Congress”, he states.
The debate about . A PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) by the congresswoman (-SP), presented on May 1st, proposes the end of the scale and the adoption of a 36-hour week, divided into four days.
The measure, which has the support of more than 130 parliamentarians, still needs to reach 171 signatures from the 513 parliamentarians in the House to advance in Congress.
Regarding the proposal, he argues that the distribution of working hours and days must be negotiated directly between companies and workers, through conventions and collective agreements — a position equal to that of the Minister of Labor, .
“It is not the role of the law to regulate work shifts, because it is not possible, as there are many specificities”, he says, citing as examples oil tankers, who work for weeks on the high seas, and hospital employees.
“The law must regulate the general working hours limit. The distribution of working hours must be agreed upon in a collective agreement so that the existence of jobs and institutions can be guaranteed”, he adds.
In a statement, Força Sindical also emphasized the defense of reducing working hours and asked for more clarity in the proposal presented by Erika Hilton.
“The parliamentarian argues that the country should not only end the model in which workers take off just one day a week, 6×1, but also adopt another working day, without making it clear what this new model would be like. We have to expand the debate by modifying an already established model, without having a law that benefits workers. We remember that the initial design does not establish an exact model, leaving the new working hours model vague”.
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