Transition wants to bury administrative reform of Guedes and Carteira Verde e Amarela

The transition team group that discusses issues related to work will recommend that the administrative reform proposed by the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government be discarded and replaced by a negotiating table that discusses the functioning of the public machine in the future management of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

The group will also propose to bar the creation of the Green and Yellow Card, a program that makes labor legislation more flexible, defended by the current Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes.

According to Deputy Rogério Correia (PT-MG), the idea is “to be free from PEC 32 [reforma administrativa] somehow discard”. In its place, a negotiation table will be proposed to debate “immediate questions of the squeeze to which the server has been submitted for six years, but also the functioning of the public machine”.

Prepared by Guedes’ team, the PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) of the administrative reform was sent by the Bolsonaro government to Congress in September 2020. The text was approved by a special commission of the Chamber in the early hours of September 24, 2021, after of parties changing members in the collegiate to prevent the proposal from being defeated.

Since then, the mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), has been demanding greater commitment from the Bolsonaro government in approving the text, which is now ready to be voted on in plenary. The assessment of the president’s surroundings, however, was that the reform could harm the re-election campaign, as it was unpopular among civil servants, and, therefore, the PEC was in the background.

Now, the transition team wants to recommend that Lula negotiate so that the text does not go forward. “In the Chamber, it depends on the president [Lira]🇧🇷 The President of the Republic can send a message asking to withdraw PEC 32, even for you to discuss the world of work with the public servant without a sword in the head. This will be in the report,” said Correia. “We want to resume the debate about what public service is in Brazil.”

Transition wants to bar Carteira Verde and Amarela and does not foresee the return of union tax

Another proposal by the group is to block any attempt to create the Green and Yellow Card, a program that makes labor rules more flexible that has already been defeated by Congress twice during the Bolsonaro government.

The current president has already sent two provisional measures with the changes. MP 905 was approved by the House in April 2020, but lost validity in the Senate. MP 1,045, on the other hand, passed through the deputies, but was rejected by the senators in September 2021.

“We are going to withdraw the Green and Yellow Card bill and set up a tripartite commission to discuss the new world of work and rules that guarantee job creation, country growth and workers’ rights,” said the PT deputy.

Correia also said that the group is going to suggest recreating the Ministry of Labor and Employment without including the Social Security area, as it is today. “A composition similar to the Ministry of Lula’s time”, he said.

Furthermore, he indicated that the report will not propose the reinstatement of the union tax.

“From what I have knowledge of the centrals [sindicais], no one defends the return of the union tax. They defend, yes, a democratic deliberation of the category in relation to the contribution.”

Correia also stressed that the new government should not “revoke” the labor reform approved during Michel Temer’s (MDB) administration.

“Some points need to be revoked, others don’t,” he said. “It depends a lot on the relationship that the unions will have. If you strengthen the union as a collective bargainer, many things that are being reformed today may not need to be changed.”