The special commission that discusses the end of 6×1 receives ministers this week Dario Durigan (Farm) and Guilherme Boulos (General Secretariat). The idea is to discuss the impacts of reducing working hours in Brazil
The first to participate will be Dario Durigan. He will be at the commission on Tuesday (12) at 4:30 pm. He was invited to speak about the . In addition to him, the president of Ipea (Institute for Applied Economic Research), Luciana Mendes Servo, and the professor at the Unicamp Institute of Economics and director of CESIT (Center for Trade Union Studies and Labor Economics), José Dari Krein, were invited.
On Wednesday (13), it will be Boulos’ turn. The. The hearing is scheduled for 2pm and should also be attended by the president of the National Union of Labor Tax Auditors, Bob Evaristo Carvalho, and the technical director of Dieese (Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies), Adriana Marcolino.
The commission also invited the founder of VAT (Life Beyond Work Movement), Rick Azevedo.
Both Durigan and Boulos will defend the end of the 6×1 along the lines proposed by the government. The Minister of Finance must present the department’s studies on the economic impacts not only for the government, but, mainly, for companies.
In February, Ipea released a technical note stating that the impacts of the reduction would be similar to the impacts observed in historical readjustments of the minimum wage in Brazil, which would indicate a capacity for absorption of the measure by the labor market.
In addition to the ministers, the commission will have other public hearings during the week. On Wednesday, at 10 am, the commission will have a meeting to discuss “spontaneous negotiations and concrete cases”. Examples of establishments that implemented the end of 6×1 will be discussed.
On Thursday (14) a seminar will be held in São Paulo, at 9:30 am, with no confirmed location yet. An event will also be held on Friday in Rio Grande do Sul.
The commission was attended last week by the Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho.
The commission’s forecast is that the report by deputy Leo Prates (Republicanos-BA) will be presented on May 20th and voted on on the 26th. Until then, at least one public hearing will still be held in Minas Gerais.
The president of the House, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), wants to vote on the PEC in two rounds by the end of May.
The president of the Chamber reinforced his confidence in complying with the schedule. He, however, said that he has not yet spoken to the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP), to try to align the process in the Upper House.
“I am confident that the schedule will be met. We are first working on the process in the Chamber and then talking to him”, he said.
Two proposals that are being processed together are analyzed, one from 2019, by deputy Reginaldo Lopes (PT-MG), and another presented last year by deputy Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP).
Both propose reducing working hours without losing wages for the worker. The CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission) approved the proposals on April 22, which paved the way for the issue to move forward in the House.
Now, in the special committee, deputies are analyzing the merits of the proposal, such as the possibility of a transition period. Some of the deputies also defend incentives for the productive sector to offset possible economic impacts of the measure.
