Decision to be taken by the Court will impact 10,000 cases that are stopped across the country waiting for the Plenary
O It marked next Wednesday (1st) the beginning of the trial on the recognition of employment between delivery and application drivers and digital platforms. The controversy is known as Uberization of Labor Relations. The decision to be made by the Court will impact 10,000 lawsuits that are stopped across the country waiting for the plenary position. Two actions will be judged that are reported by ministers Edson Fachin and Alexandre de Moraes and arrived at the Supreme Court from funds filed by the Rappi platforms and .
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Companies dispute labor court decisions that recognized the employment relationship with drivers and delivery. Rappi claimed that labor decisions that recognized the employment bond with the company disrespected a position of the court itself that understands that there is no formal employment relationship with the delivery. Uber maintained that it is a technology company, not the transportation business, and that the recognition of labor bond alters the purpose of the platform’s business, violating the constitutional principle of the free initiative of economic activity.
In addition to the defenses of the platforms, the ministers will hear during the trial the oral support of entities that advocate the recognition of the labor bond of drivers and delivery. The judgment on Uberization will be the first agenda of the plenary under the command of the which will be sworn in as president of the Supreme Court next Monday (29). He will succeed Minister Luis Roberto Barroso, who will end two years in front of the court.
*With information from Agência Brasil
