Government makes labor rules more flexible and revises more than a thousand norms

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President Jair Bolsonaro (non-party) signed a decree that eases infra-legal labor rules. The measure comes from the review of more than a thousand decrees, ordinances and normative instructions, now gathered in 15 norms, according to the Ministry of Labor and Welfare.

The decree should be published in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) on Thursday (10) and was announced at a ceremony at the Palácio do Planalto on Wednesday.

“We often see the people complaining that they earn too little. The truth, in Brazil’s economy, [é que] the salary is little for those who receive and a lot for those who pay. And that much for those who pay also comes as a result of bureaucracy,” said Bolsonaro.

In his speech, the president also cited the positive balance of jobs created in 2019, 2020 and 2021, attributing this to “debureaucratization” and “deregulation”.

Although the data is positive, last week the government revised downwards the balance of formal jobs generated in 2020.

According to Caged (General Register of Employed and Unemployed), there were 75.8 thousand formal jobs, not 142.6 thousand, as previously disclosed.

The review of labor standards has been carried out by Labor and the Ministry of Economy since 2019.

The new rules deal with themes such as work permits, union registration, Christmas bonuses, food assistance, among others.

The objective, according to the government, is to simplify and reduce bureaucracy.

According to the Ministry of Labour, rules that were no longer valid, such as those governing domestic servants, were revoked (there is a 2015 law regulating the profession).

In addition, the folder mentions ten different ordinances that deal with the worker’s time attendance record.

Planalto says that the decree will also institute the Permanent Program for the Consolidation, Simplification and Debureaucratization of Infra-Legal Labor Rules and the National Labor Award.

The latest PNAD (Continuous National Household Sample Survey), by the IBGE, shows that the unemployment rate dropped to 13.2% in the quarter up to August.

But Brazil still has 14.1 million unemployed. The country has not yet recovered the level of occupation it had before the pandemic.

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