Benedita da Silva: government creates difficulties with emergency income to drive people to the streets.
A federal congresswoman from the Workers' Party (PT) warns about the problem of receiving the R$600 emergency income and says that this causes people to become desperate and leave their isolation to go to work.
247 - Federal Deputy Benedita da Silva (PT-RJ) spoke with TV 247 in the week leading up to National Domestic Workers' Day about the difficulties imposed by the Bolsonaro government on the distribution of the R$600 emergency aid during the coronavirus pandemic. She participated in a debate on the rights of domestic workers with former President Dilma Rousseff, the president of the National Federation of Domestic Workers (Fenatrad), Luiza Batista, and the artist and educator Preta Rara (watch below).
According to the congresswoman, a former domestic worker, the government's intention is to cause despair among the population who, without money, would go out into the streets to work, thus fueling the economy, as he argues it should be. “It's difficult. The government is creating instruments that make you lose faith, you see impossibility, 'I don't think I'll be able to do it,' and then you go out into the street and get infected. He delays this so that the population despairs; he has no commitment to the people, he has a commitment to the market.”
Benedita da Silva is the author of a Bill to protect domestic workers that, among other rights, guarantees the right of domestic workers to leave their jobs and pay without prejudice; a minimum income for those who perform informal domestic work; exemption from the waiting period for the granting of social security benefits; and job security — during the emergency period to combat Covid-19.
She was also an author and played a key role in the voting process for the Domestic Workers' Constitutional Amendment, enacted on April 2, 2013.