President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) sent to Congress this Tuesday (14) a project that puts an end to the 6×1 work regime. The message about shipping was published in an extra edition of DOU (Official Gazette of the Union).
The project will be processed urgently, so the Chamber of Deputies will have to vote on the project within 45 days and the Senate within the same period. If the proposal is not analyzed, the legislative agenda will be blocked.
The full text of Lula’s proposal has not yet been released and should be known this Wednesday (15), with the project being included in the Chamber of Deputies system.
Currently, a PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) on the same topic is already being processed in the Chamber.
Lula met this Tuesday afternoon with the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) to debate the topic. According to information from the newspaper O Globothey agreed that Motta would discuss with the new Minister of Institutional Relations, José Guimarães, and the government leader in the Chamber, Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS) would discuss how the new project would progress in the House.
“We discussed how to address the issue of the end of the 6×1 scale. The President said he was keen to forward the government’s project, he said he would send it this week. President Hugo said that there is a PEC in the Chamber being processed on this topic”, Pimenta reported to Globo.
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“We agreed that Hugo, Guimarães and I will talk to build a way of how the PEC and the government project will be processed. We will talk to build how this process will be”, added the government leader.
The Globe found that, in this afternoon’s meeting between the president and Hugo Motta, Lula said that sending the Executive’s proposal has a symbolic and political character. He also reportedly said that the proposal is part of his trajectory as a trade unionist.
The reduction in working hours has been a government flag, which it would like to see approved this semester, before the start of the electoral campaign.
The end of the 6 x 1 scale is one of the government’s bets to improve its approval just a few months before the election, especially among a segment of the population with lower-middle income where bad mood towards the government has grown.
The proposal has great acceptance among the population, according to research, but faces great resistance among businesspeople, who allege the cost increase. Despite this, it ended up gaining traction in Congress due to its popular appeal in an election year.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo and Reuters.
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