Skaf: Industry will not accept the end of tax breaks.
"The industry adjusted its costs and prices based on the [current] law [on payroll tax exemptions] that came into effect in November 2014, and changing this law would further deteriorate the competitiveness of the Brazilian economy and job creation," says the president of Fiesp; in the Senate, he argued today that "it is necessary to ensure equality between outsourced and directly hired workers."
247 – The president of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) and the Center of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Ciesp), Paulo Skaf, states that the industry will not accept changes to the rules of the current law on payroll tax relief, which came into effect in November 2014.
According to Skaf, the industry also has no intention of agreeing to a temporary change in the rules of the current legislation.
"The industry adjusted its costs and prices based on the law that came into effect in November 2014, and changing that law would further deteriorate the competitiveness of the Brazilian economy and job creation," says Skaf.
Today in the Senate, where he participated in a thematic session on the bill regulating outsourcing, the president of Fiesp (Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo) argued that "it is necessary to ensure equality between outsourced and directly hired workers." Read the Senate Agency report below:
Skaf: It is necessary to ensure equality between outsourced and directly hired workers.
While participating in a thematic session in the Senate, this Tuesday (19), the president of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp), Paulo Skaf, stated that the 12 million outsourced workers lack equality in some fundamental issues already guaranteed to directly hired workers, such as access to services existing in companies – cafeteria, infirmary, transportation and occupational safety.
According to Skaf, PLC 30/2015 ensures outsourced workers "what they don't have today." Furthermore, according to the president of Fiesp, the proposal establishes the joint liability of the service recipient regarding social security and labor obligations.
— Under this regulation, outsourced workers have much greater guarantees of receiving their wages and benefits than direct employees, because if the company goes bankrupt, the latter have no one to turn to except the courts.
Skaf said that the country is not currently holding a plebiscite to determine whether "outsourcing is good or bad." According to him, outsourcing is already part of Brazil's reality, and what is being debated today is the regulation of "something that is currently unregulated." Skaf warned that framing the debate on outsourcing regulation as a class struggle is a mistake, "because there is no struggle at all."