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3mo ago

Chamber Committee Approves PEC to End 6×1 and Cut Workweek to 40 Hours

The committee approval sends a staged, no-pay-cut reform to full votes that will test support for mitigation measures and sectoral exceptions given the supermajority rules.

Parecer do relator fixa limite de 40 horas semanais, garante dois dias de descanso remunerado e prevê transição de um ano.
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Overview

  • The Special Committee approved the relator Léo Prates’s substitute on Wednesday, voting 34–4 to end the 6×1 scale and enshrine a 40‑hour weekly limit while forbidding salary cuts.
  • The amendment mandates a two-step transition that reduces the workweek to 42 hours within about 60 days of promulgation and to 40 hours roughly 12 months later, a schedule that can total about 14 months in some formulations.
  • The text automatically voids collective clauses incompatible with the new hours after the first 60-day step and exempts ‘hiperssuficientes’—university graduates earning at least 2.5 times the INSS cap—from mandatory time‑control rules.
  • Next steps require two plenary rounds in the Chamber with at least 308 votes in each turn before the Senate takes up the PEC, creating a high political threshold that the government and Chamber leaders must clear.
  • Industry groups warn of higher labor costs, price pressure and GDP effects without productivity or credit mitigation, and the government is negotiating targeted supports for MEIs, small firms and public‑contract adjustments to ease the transition.