President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva demanded this Monday, 8th, that businesspeople offer jobs with better salaries and a better working day.
“I’m going to say when people want to work: pay a decent salary and improve working hours. That’s what will make people work anywhere. Nobody likes to live on favors, on public policies”, declared the president during the 14th National Social Assistance Conference, held in Brasília.
Lula has been defending the review of the weekly working hours in Brazil, stating that technological advances make the current model, on a 6×1 scale (six days of work, one of rest), obsolete.
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Lula said that “more still needs to be done” to reduce inequalities in Brazil, even though his government has approved some measures. He cited the project that exempted those who earn up to R$5,000 from Income Tax.
“Even reducing inequalities at the highest level in history, Brazil is still very unequal. The rich are still very rich, even though we approve the non-payment of income tax for those who earn R$5,000, more needs to be done, because there is still a lot of income concentration in the country. We are just starting to make the transformation that this country needs. It will take work, but we will do it”, he stated.
Lula also demanded that left-wing activists elect more ideologically aligned deputies, senators and governors. He stated that the fate of the country “depends on the quality of the deputies, senators and governors that you elect”.
“We are talking about a future that is about to be built by our hands, by our behavior, our work and by the degree of political awareness that we have on the day we have to vote”, he stated, adding that “it has never worked to put the fox in charge of the henhouse”.
The president also defended, in front of an audience made up of people linked to social assistance, the discussion of a proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that guarantees a budget for the area annually, without the need to have disputes every year for resources for the sector.
