The president of the Chamber, , announced this Tuesday (28) deputy Leo Prates (Republicanos-BA) as rapporteur of the special committee of the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) that . The president of the collegiate will be Alencar Santana (PT-SP).
The names of the rapporteur and the president were kept secret until the last moment to avoid pressure from the government base and the opposition on those chosen.
The commission will be installed on Wednesday afternoon (29). In a press conference on Tuesday, the president highlighted that the conduct of the process must be balanced and defended the proposal as a way of seeking justice for the Brazilian working class.
“We will increase productivity, because the worker will be much more willing when they are in the work environment”, he stated. The announcement of the names was made by Motta alongside those chosen and the leader of the PT, Pedro Uczai (RS) and the leader of the PDT, Mário Heringer (MG). There were no opposition representatives present.
The special commission can last up to 40 plenary sessions to analyze the PEC. The expectation, however, is that the Chamber will vote on the end of the vote by the end of the month, according to the president of the House. Motta stated that he was in favor of the proposal, but defended more time to prepare the text.
“We’re going to have that time. It seems long, but at the same time it’s short. We’re going to have to hold more than one meeting, two or three a week, so that we can listen to both sectors, have the debate in this different House, so that at the end of May we can deliver the report and approve it in the commission and in the plenary”, said Alencar Santana.
Due to the popularity of the end of the 6×1 scale, the government and opposition were in favor of the PEC. There are disagreements, however, about the implementation of the measure. The government wants swift and urgent constitutional approval on the topic. The text provides that weekly work does not exceed 40 hours (today, it is 44 hours) and daily working hours are limited to eight.
This type of proposal must be voted on in the Chamber within 45 days. After this period, the agenda stops and nothing else can be voted on in the plenary. Despite this, Motta disregarded the government’s text by maintaining the focus on the processing via PEC and stated that the end of 6×1 needs more debate before being decided.
Last Wednesday (22), the CCJ (Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission). One is authored by deputy Reginaldo Lopes (PT-MG) and proposes reducing the weekly working hours over 10 years from the current 44 to 36 hours. The other, by Erika Hilton (Psol-SP), provides for a four-day work schedule per week, with a limit of 36 hours.
In publicity pieces, the government has defended the measure and compared it with other moments in which legal changes guaranteed rights despite resistance from sections of the elite, such as the creation of the minimum wage.
The right-wing resists the change, claiming that it could cause harm to entrepreneurs and increase the final value of products, but understands that there is no margin for voting against it on the eve of the election. In this way, the opposition tries to change the proposal, stagger the reduction in working hours and have a greater transition towards the end of the 6×1 scale.
The PL also articulates a trap for the government. The party wants to add to the PEC at the end of the 6×1 scale the provision for hiring employees on flexible working hours and remuneration proportional to the hours worked. In practice, this could empty the CLT by allowing employees to receive less than the minimum wage in the event of fewer hours worked.
Behind the scenes, the PL’s strategy has a practical objective: to avoid arming President Lula’s base against the party and the pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (RJ). The fear in the acronym is that a position contrary to the end of the 6×1 scale will give the PT reason to criticize the opposition on a popular agenda. According to Datafolha research carried out in March, the proposal to end the 6×1 working day.
A right-wing wing has argued that, to implement the end of the 6×1 scale, compensation measures would be necessary for the most affected companies. The government is against it, but the opposition talks about relieving part of the payroll of the enterprises most affected by the PEC.
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