Measure includes optional point, special time and early departure of servers on the day of the team’s match in the World Cup
Governors of 22 federative units will change the working hours of their civil servants on Monday (June 29, 2026), the date on which the Brazilian team faces Japan’s team. The match will be at 2pm, Brasília time.
The survey considers decrees, official communications and operating rules from state governments and the Federal District that establish full or partial optional points, special hours or early release on the day of the game.
The account also includes cases in which the suspension of work was not directly motivated by the departure, but by a holiday or optional point related to Saint Peter’s Day, celebrated on June 29th.
The release will not be uniform. In some federative units, the optional point is valid for the entire working day. In others, workers will be released just a few hours before the game. There are also cases in which employees may end their shift early, but will have to compensate for the hours not worked later.
In Minas, public servants can anticipate departure up to 3 hours before the start of the match, with hours reset until September 30th. In Rio Grande do Sul, a decree authorizes the closing of business hours 2 hours before the Brazilian games, also subject to subsequent compensation.
In Alagoas and Sergipe, the release is linked to the celebrations of São Pedro. In Alagoas, June 29th is included in the official calendar as a state holiday. In Sergipe, the government decreed an optional point from 12 pm, on the eve of São Pedro, in bodies and entities of the Executive’s state public administration.
Despite the releases, essential services continue to operate. The rules do not cover uninterrupted or essential service activities, such as health, public safety, urgency and emergency, which must operate on an on-call basis or on a dedicated schedule. In practice, the optional point mainly affects those who work in administrative areas of secretariats, local authorities and state foundations.
Public servants in some of the country’s capitals will also have more flexible working hours on game day. This is the case, for example, of Manaus, São Luís, Cuiabá, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Palmas.
WORLD CUP
The World Cup is a private, for-profit sporting event. It is carried out every 4 years by . Teams qualify through knockouts. The technical committee and squad of each team competing in the competition are chosen by private entities.
In the case of Brazil, it is up to defining who the coach is and which players are “called up” (in reality, everyone is invited and whoever is interested goes; as the commercial gain from marketing is great, the athletes respond to the “call up”).
The Brazilian government has no influence on choosing the team that participates in the tournament. In other words, it is not the country that is represented in the World Cup, but a football team chosen by a private entity.
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