The message to Congress about the project was sent on Tuesday night, and the text was filed on Wednesday morning
The bill sent by the government that ends the 6×1 work schedule must be considered by Congress within three months to then be sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said this Wednesday the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Guilherme Boulos.
“The bill with urgency regime guarantees 45 days maximum processing time in the Chamber, 45 days of processing in the Senate. We are talking about three months for this to be approved, become law and be sanctioned by President Lula”, he said.
The message to Congress about the project, and the text filed this Wednesday morning, after a conversation between the government and the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB).
The parliamentarian sponsored a Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) on the same topic, but, as the PEC takes longer to process, with the risk of not being approved before the elections, the government chose to send the PL urgently.
O PL text provides for a reduction in weekly working hours from 44 hours to 40 hourss, with the scale limited to maximum of five days on and two days off.
“If it is a 4×3 scale, there will be 10 hours of work per day, but it becomes part of the collective agreement negotiation”, said the Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho.
A PEC being processed in the Chamber reduces the number of working hours in the constitutional text. According to the ministers, there is no problem with the PEC continuing but the government wants to speed up the reduction in scale and a PEC takes longer to process.
According to Marinho, although the 44-hour work week is included in the Constitution, it can be reduced by bill – it could not be increased – which is why the PL resolves the situation.
“And it may be that with the PL the reduction of working hours comes into force and is then consolidated by PEC to prevent any future adventurers who want to increase working hours”, said the minister, citing the case of Argentina, in which Javier Milei’s government approved an increase in working hours to 12 hours a day.
