President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday, in a radio and television speech on the occasion of Labor Day, that his government will intensify discussions about the current work regime, the so-called 6 × 1 journey, in a nod to the union sector.
The subject is one of the main points to be addressed by the trade unions and entities related to workers this May 1, when acts and events are planned across the country.
“We will deepen the debate about reducing the working hours in force in the country where the worker and the worker spend six days in the service and have only one day of rest,” Lula said in the statement.
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“It’s time for Brazil to take this step, listening to all sectors of society to allow a balance between professional life and the well-being of workers.”
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The president also took advantage of the pronouncement to present a balance of his government, drawing attention to measures such as income tax exemption for those who earn up to $ 5,000 per month and the Educational Incentive Program.
Nor did it address the operation of the CGU and the Federal Police last week, which investigate entities that made discounts on the pensioners of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) of tuition without proper authorization, leading the president to dismiss the president of the INSS, Alessandro Stefanutto.
“Last week, our government, through the Comptroller General of the Union and the Federal Police, dismantled a criminal scheme of improper collection against retirees and pensioners who has been operating since 2019,” he said.
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“I determined to the Attorney General of the Union that the associations that committed illegal charges are processed and required to reimburse the people who were injured,” added the president.
Shortly before Lula’s pronouncement, the Planalto issued a statement stating that by determination of Lula, the substitute chief minister of the Civil House, Miriam Belchior appointed federal prosecutor Gilberto Waller Júnior to the presidency of the INSS.
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Depending on the unfolding of opposition and government articulation in the National Congress, the case of the INSS may even become the object of a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI).
Unlike previous years, the president will not participate in acts that mark the historical date for the PT and unionism.
If he were going to participate, Lula would have to choose between two acts planned for Thursday: one in São Bernardo do Campo, organized by CUT-who chose to decentralize the celebrations and trigger his state branches, and another in São Paulo, promoted by other union centrals, which should even have car draws to the public.
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The risk of exposing himself, as last year, events with low popular mobilization. In 2024, an organized act in São Paulo had less than 2,000 people, leading Lula to pull the ear of the Presidential Secretary-General, Márcio Macêdo, in public, stating that the act had been “poorly summoned”.
