Sakamotto mocks the head of the CNI and proposes the repeal of the Golden Law.

"What an excellent idea for business owners to embrace! Let's face it, we've never managed to include rights for the population freed at the end of the 19th century, and their descendants continue to be treated like second-class citizens," says blogger Leonardo Sakamotto, commenting on the CNI's proposal for an 80-hour work week; "And this would meet a business demand for cheap labor and one of the trucker phrases that our interim president likes best: 'don't talk about the crisis, work'."

July 09, 2016, 10:30 pmUpdated June 29, 2018, 23:37 pm

"What an excellent idea for business owners to embrace! Let's face it, we've never managed to include rights for the population freed at the end of the 19th century, and their descendants continue to be treated like second-rate workers," says blogger Leonardo Sakamotto, commenting on the CNI's proposal for an 80-hour work week; "And this would meet a business demand for cheap labor and one of the trucker phrases that our interim president likes best: 'don't talk about the crisis, work'" (Photo: Leonardo Attuch)

247 - Blogger Leonardo Sakamotto mocked the president of the National Confederation of Industry, Robson Andrade, in the article. In the name of the Brazilian economy, I propose to repeal the Golden Law., when commenting on his proposal for an 80-hour work week.

"I keep thinking about what must go through the mind of a person who lives in the countryside, works until they can't take it anymore, receiving a starvation wage, having to depend on minimum income programs to buy chicken for their child's birthday, when they see on their TV businessmen blaming working hours, labor laws, and Social Security for the planet's misfortunes," says Sakamotto.

"The desires of the industrialists represented by Andrade's speech go in the opposite direction to the demands of the labor unions, which have, among their main demands, the reduction of the work week from 44 to 40 hours. The last reduction occurred 28 years ago, in the 1988 Constitution, when it fell from 48 to 44 hours," he states.

If the thinking is so archaic, he says, why not repeal the Golden Law?What an excellent idea for business owners to embrace! Let's face it, we've never managed to guarantee rights for the population freed at the end of the 19th century, and their descendants continue to be treated like second-class citizens, suffering all kinds of prejudice and receiving far less than white people for the same job, according to data from the International Labour Organization. And this would align with a business demand for cheap labor and one of the trucker phrases our interim president likes best: "Don't talk about the crisis, work."