Panel SA: Union centrals reject studies to change labor laws

The trade union centrals release this Monday (6) a letter of repudiation to the proposals for reform of the labor legislation presented by a group of specialists recruited by the Jair Bolsonaro government, who propose the release of work on Sundays and other changes.

“The government’s intention, it seems, is to increase the industrial reserve army, which is to increase unemployment, which in Brazil has always been high, in order to regulate exploitation and precariousness,” the document states. “It’s creating difficulty to sell facility.”

Among the proposals presented by the group, there are also the creation of unions per company, the legalization of the lockout and the reduction of the powers of the Labor Court to interfere in the relations between capital and work.

For the centrals, the group’s suggestions contradict recent advances in more developed countries, such as the United States, Germany and China, and unbalance the relations between employers and employees, confirming the “law of the fittest”.​

The proposals were drawn up by specialists called to participate in the Gaet (Group of Higher Labor Studies), formed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. Workers’ representatives were excluded from the discussion, according to the union centrals.

“Proposing such big changes in labor legislation, without even listening to and dialoguing with workers through its institutions demonstrates once again that the mentality of this government is in the Old Republic, when the perverse, unilateral slavery logic still set the tone of relationships,” says the letter.

Sign the document CUT (Single Workers Center), Força Sindical, UGT (General Union of Workers), CTB (Central of Workers and Workers of Brazil), CST (Central Union of Workers) and CSB (Central of Brazilian Unions).

with Ricardo Balthazar (interim), Andressa Motter e Ana Paula Branco