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Intermittent workers without regular work are considered 'employees' by the government.

Unemployment is visibly increasing, but the bubble in which Temer and the top of his government live says otherwise; Temer himself announced that 33,000 new jobs were created in Brazil in May, but of those, 3,000 are intermittent – ​​almost one in ten positions – and are currently unemployed.

Intermittent workers without work are considered 'employed' by the government (Photo: REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker)

247 Unemployment is visibly increasing, but the bubble in which Temer and the top of his government live says otherwise. Temer himself announced that 33,000 new jobs were created in Brazil in May, but of those, 3,000 are intermittent – ​​almost one in ten positions – and are currently unemployed.

"Is a person who signed an intermittent work contract but was not called to work and did not receive a salary considered an employee? For the federal government, yes. When releasing official data measuring the performance of the formal labor market, the Ministry of Labor has included intermittent workers in the statistics, even without knowing if they actually worked."

This type of contract was created by the labor reform, in effect since November. The contract, also known as zero-hour contract, does not stipulate a fixed work schedule. This means that the worker can be called upon sporadically and only receives remuneration for the period of service provided. If not called upon, there is no salary. Since the release of the November data, the Caged (General Registry of Employed and Unemployed Workers) has included the number of intermittent workers. The positive balance of this modality has increased the overall result, although it is still small compared to the total labor market.

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