Federal deputy Leo Prates (PDT-BA) presented this Friday, 5th, a replacement report for a bill that deals with the end of the 6×1 scale (six days of work, one of rest). In the text, the parliamentarian establishes a working day of a maximum of 40 hours per week, with five days of work and two days of rest. The implementation of the scale must be done gradually to become fully effective in 2028.
In the report, Prates also included a device that gives the possibility of working on a 4×3 scale, with a maximum limit of 10 hours per day, through a collective work agreement or collective convention.
“The substitute, in its careful formulation, seeks this point of balance between the necessary valorization of human work and the preservation of the economic sustainability of companies”, explains the rapporteur. This proposal is in the Chamber’s Working Committee, of which Prates himself is president. He expects the board to vote on the project by the end of this year.
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The bill was authored by PCdoB deputies and is being processed in parallel with the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) at the end of the 6×1 scale, authored by deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP). The rapporteur of this PEC, Luiz Gastão (PSD-CE), maintained in his text the possibility of working six days a week, but limited the working hours to 40 hours a week. Today, the limit is 44 hours.
The government and Hilton itself criticized the rapporteur’s decision. “This proposal, from Congressman Luiz Gastão, simply does not end with the 6×1 scale”, stated Hilton. “Soon after the presentation of this text, I met with minister Gleisi (Hoffmann, from the Secretariat of Institutional Relations), minister (from the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Guilherme) Boulos, minister (of Labor, Luiz) Marinho and minister (from the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic) Sidônio to discuss the issue.”
Hilton’s original proposal formalized an initiative by the Life Beyond Work Movement (VAT), by Rio councilor Rick Azevedo (PSOL), and envisaged reducing working hours to four days a week and hours worked to 36 hours a week.
This Thursday, the 4th, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the review of the weekly working hours in Brazil, stating that technological advances make the current six-to-one model obsolete.
According to the president, the debate on reducing working hours must be resumed in a structured way, in light of the transformations in the productive sector. “It no longer makes sense for our country, with technological advances, to maintain the current working day,” he stated.
Lula said that the discussion needs to involve unions and experts, with a focus on reorganizing the model of six days worked for one day off.
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