Trade union centers and social movements demonstrated this Friday (1st), at Praça Roosevelt, in the center of São Paulo, for the approval of the end of the 6×1 scale in the National Congress and for measures to combat feminicide in the country. Several people criticized, on t-shirts and posters, the performance of parliamentarians in the National Congress.
Public school teacher Marco Antônio Ferreira highlighted that one of the challenges is to convince new generations about the importance of working under the rules of the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), given the growth of the so-called pejotização, that is, the hiring of employees as Legal Entities (PJ).
“We, who are educators, never give up. We see a lot of people for whom the penny has already dropped and I think it’s a struggle. Gradual and organized, to bring this reflection, as much as possible, for people to see the world that is being built, which is not a better world”, argues Ferreira.
In this type of contract, there may be a loss of rights such as paid vacation, 13th salary and the guarantee that they will receive a salary even when they are sick. This type of contract is generally signed with someone who is an Individual Microentrepreneur (MEI).
Today, in Brazil, the Life Beyond Work Movement (VAT) has gained more and more members, at the same time that a part of the business community and other sectors of the economy are opposed to the reduction of working hours and the consequent change in these work relationships.
Trying to put into effect a 40-hour work week regime, the The federal government sent an urgent bill to Congress in mid-April. The proposal prohibits salary cuts as a result of reduced working hours.
According to the educator, in addition to losing rest and leisure time, due to working hours, many workers are prevented from dedicating themselves to collective struggles for rights, such as those aimed at ending social inequalities.
“Military, defending your rights, running after it is already difficult for those who don’t work on a 6×1 scale. On this scale, it’s inhumane, the person can barely take care of their own life. So, really, it’s a way of disorganizing and even dehumanizing”, observes the educator.
The survey O Trabalho no Brasil, commissioned by the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Fundação Perseu Abramo and other union entities, showed that more than half (56%) of private sector workers without a formal contract have had previous experience under the CLT regime and almost two thirds (59.1%) stated that they would, without a doubt, return to having their license registered.
Vox Populi, when listening to people outside the market (women in unpaid care activities and students) for the survey, discovered that more than half (52.2%) would like to return and 57.1% preferred to return to the job market with a formal contract (CLT).
Another point was that there is confusion between entrepreneur and self-employment. Many participating people declared themselves entrepreneurs, when they were, in reality, PJs affected by precariousness.
For all women
Amid the wave of feminicides and cases of gender-based violence across the country, women’s rights appeared as an important and urgent agenda in this Saturday’s protest. Pedagogue Silvana Santana says that the aggravated misogyny can be explained with the help of thinkers busy denouncing the colonialist project to which Europeans subjected Brazil and which continues to produce consequences.
Santana recognizes the value of the measures being taken by public authorities to protect women, but says they arrived late and with limited scope, given the urgency of treating black men and women as subjects of rights.
“What to think about patrimonial, intellectual violence, subjectivities, the denial of these women’s bodies? I keep thinking that a bolder project is needed, towards the emancipation of the country’s Afro-descendants.”
