We are still in April, but the year is almost over in the National Congress. In less than three months, the electoral race will be boiling, and the chance of anything important being approved is practically zero.
The government, therefore, has little time to implement its main priority for President Lula’s campaign, the end of the 6×1 work schedule.
This change would oblige companies to give at least two days of rest per week to their employees. It would be accompanied by a reduction in working hours to 40 hours a week. An important detail: all this without a salary reduction.
Companies, of course, are against it and say that there could be an increase in unemployment and costs. This would generate a pass-through to prices and inflation.
This is an old flag of the unions and the left. The government is counting on her to improve Lula’s popularity ratings, who is facing difficulties in the polls against Flavio Bolsonaro.
In this dispute, Lula gained an unexpected ally, the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta, who wants to approve the change by May, close to Labor Day.
But then a paternity dispute began under the law. Hugo Motta wants to give priority to a constitutional amendment proposal that is already being processed in the Chamber to end the .
But now Lula has decided to send a new project from scratch, very similar, as a matter of urgency.
The president’s argument is that a project, unlike a constitutional amendment, needs fewer votes to be approved. And this way it would have a better chance of passing before the campaign heats up and Congress is left in the dust.
But there is another question behind this, perhaps even more important. A bill, for real, has to be sanctioned by the president, unlike an amendment, which is promulgated by Congress.
In other words, the Lula government wants to have the last word on the approved text and the right to veto any point with which it disagrees.
If this happens, the president thinks he will be able to say in the election campaign that he was the father of the end of the 6×1 scale, and no one else.
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