The Ministry of Labor and Employment is gathering data on Brazilians working on the 6 × 1 scale. THE CNNthe folder confirmed that the information is being compiled and should be released by the middle of this year.
The initiative comes in the treadmill of the repercussion of the one seeking to end the working scale of six days per week.
Authored by federal deputy Erika Hilton, leader of PSOL in the House of Representatives, the text already has the signatures necessary to process and ,.
Specialists heard by CNN They evaluate that specific 6 × 1 workers are fundamental to discussion in scale reduction.
Currently, information on formal employment in Brazil, which are included in the General Registry of Employees and Unemployed (Caged) and the Annual Relationship of Social Information (RAIS), do not cover the reality of these Brazilians, since they do not raise the amount of days worked but the weekly journey in hours.
“There are some reasons for this. People sometimes work a more day, the other day less, but the fact is that we don’t know who works how many days. We don’t know which workers are on the 6 × 1 scale, if they have more or less income, if they have more or less qualification, whether they are men or women, their age group, ”explained economist Daniel Duque, researcher at FGV IBRE in the area of labor market.
“If we don’t know that, it is very difficult to understand what would be the potential impacts of the end of the 6 × 1 scale,” he continued.
Data from RAIS 2023 – the last relationship released until then – point out that 33.5 million Brazilians work from 41 to 44 hours per week. It is possible to deduce that they are the one within the 6 × 1 scale, considering the journey provided for in the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), of 8 hours worked per day.
The information is vague, however, because a worker may have a 30 -hour contract and work five hours a day from Monday to Saturday.
A CNN He consulted the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), but the institution also never raised how many days a week each Brazilian works.
For Daniel Duque, the discussion about the end of the 6 × 1 scale needs to be based on data that goes beyond the worker itself. The economist argues that it is necessary to understand the profile of sectors and companies involved to measure impacts and outline strategies.
“Companies that use 6 × 1 scale compared to others they don’t use, do they have alternatives to it? Are companies that have any financial stress? Could you adopt technological tools to compensate for the end of the 6 × 1 scale? Can restaurants use the 6 × 1 scale alternatively use some kind of app where customers place their order online and don’t need a waiter all the time? ”Said Duque.
“These issues are really very important. We will only understand, in fact, when understanding the workers, companies and affected sectors, ”he continued.
Professor of Economics at the Brazilian Institute of Teaching, Development and Research (IDP), economist Pedro Fernando Nery points out that gathering data on weekly hours, without worrying about the scale of workers, is not something that happens in Brazil alone – it is a trend worldwide.
For him, the change in the survey is within this role of the Ministry of Labor to mediate the subject.
“Before the agenda did not exist. […] Probably what the most specific data will confirm is that a small portion of workers is on the 6 × 1 scale and that there is no need to be afraid of the change. It is estimated that they are less than 20%, but knowing the profile is important to know the impact by sector and eventually think about policies for each of them, ”he said.
Another bottleneck in the official surveys of work data is the information of informal workers, which is not included in the surveys.
“We know that although they [trabalhadores informais]By definition, they are not directly influenced by law, they may be affected indirectly. It is the so -called headlight effect: formal market rules signal to the informal. It is a parameter for your negotiations, ”concluded Nery.
