Sakamoto: Temer maintains harm to workers with adjustments to labor reform.
Journalist Leonardo Sakamoto criticized the changes Michel Temer made yesterday to the labor reform through a Provisional Measure; according to Sakamoto, the MP did not alter most of the negative impacts on workers. "The essence of the reform, for example, remains: the guarantee that negotiation between employers and employees takes precedence over what the law says, as requested by business associations," says the journalist.
247 - Journalist Leonardo Sakamoto criticized the changes Michel Temer made yesterday to the labor reform, through a Provisional Measure.
The changes concern the need for a collective agreement for the 12-hour on/36-hour off work schedule, the removal of pregnant and breastfeeding women from unhealthy work environments, the regulation of intermittent work schedules, the prohibition of exclusivity clauses in the relationship between self-employed individuals and employers, the end of calculating compensation for moral damages based on the employee's salary, the rules for monitoring the payment of tips, and the guarantee that unions continue to represent the interests of the category, above the employee committee of each company.
According to Sakamoto, the Provisional Measure did not alter most of the negative impacts on workers. "The essence of the reform, for example, remains: the guarantee that negotiations between employers and employees take precedence over what the law says, as requested by business associations," says the journalist.
"In strong unions, this can yield good results. In weak or corrupt unions, negotiations tend to be unbalanced in favor of employers, approving reductions in rights that jeopardize the health and safety of workers," says Sakamoto.
Read the full text at Sakamoto's Blog.