Brazil's Senate Votes Today on Scrapping the Exhausting 6×1 Workweek
The change would give workers two paid days off and could raise labor costs for firms that rely on six-day shifts.
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The plenary is preparing to debate the PEC 221/2019, backed by 54 firms, to eliminate the 6x1 scale and set 40 hours per week without reducing wages.
In order to be approved, the proposal requires at least 49 votes in favour in two rounds.
The President of the Senate, David Alcolumbre (Union-AP), included in the agenda next Wednesday (14) the vote on the proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) which provides for the end of scale 6 by 1. The agenda provides for the last session for discussion of the proposal and the vote in the first round of the text in the House Plenary. According to the internal rules of the Senate, the proposal needs to go through five plenary discussion s…
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