Labor and employment
After a meeting between the heads of the state and municipal executive powers over the weekend, acts of the mayor and governor of Rio de Janeiro were published on March 22 and 24, restricting the movement of people and the operation of various...
Ordinance No. 1.809/21, of the Special Bureau of Social Security and Labor, which modifies the list of business activities authorized to operate permanently on Sundays and civil and religious holidays, enters into effect on March 1st. The new rule...
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) began on February 19 the virtual judgmnet of Extraordinary Appeal 999.435, which discusses topic of general repercussion 638 regarding the need for prior collective bargaining for mass layoffs of workers. The...
The Public Ministry of Labor (MPT) issued the Technical Note (NT) nº 1/2021 recommending companies to implement alternative measures for pregnant employees during the covid-19 pandemic. According to the MPT, when the pregnant woman's activity is...
The modernization of labor relations, the advancement of technologies, and the constant use of mobile phones have led to the creation of various possible channels of communication between employees and the proliferation of social networking groups...
After almost a year of pandemic, the time has come to talk about carnival for 2021: how will Brazil's biggest festivity take place and how will it affect labor and employment relations? Will the workers continue to perform their activities...
Algorithms are sequences of actions to be performed by software to solve a problem or achieve a certain result. They are used, for example, to automatically search for previously defined profiles in extensive databases in order to obtain specific...
Rodrigo Seizo Takano, Caroline Marchi, Andrea Giamondo Massei, and Daniel Antonio Dias When the lights went out on 2020, the plenary session of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) completed on the 18th the judgment of the lawsuits that debated the...
The new coronavirus pandemic has forced many companies to review their forms of organization, with impacts on labor relations and the day-to-day lives of employees. According to data from the PNAD-Covid survey, conducted by the Brazilian...
Gender identification issues are receiving increasing attention, especially in the workplace, where diversity initiatives, committees, and programs are becoming more common and necessary for the debate on this relevant topic. With the growing...
Since the enactment of Law No. 9,732/98, the rule of automatic cancellation of special retirement in the event that a worker works in a hazardous environment, provided for in paragraph 8[1] of article 57 of Law No. 8,213/91. Special retirement is...
Federal Decree No. 10,470/20, published on August 25, extended the time limits for employers to suspend their employees' employment contracts or to reduce, proportionally, working hours and salaries. Created by Executive Order No. 936/2020 (later...
