On November 14, 2017, three days after the Labor and Employment Reform coming into effect, President Michel Temer issued a Provisional Measure amending the original bill sanctioned on July 14th, 2017.

Territorial jurisdiction in the Labor Courts, that is, the place where the labor claim must be filed, is defined based on the location of the provision of services, with the two exceptions provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 651 of the Consolidated Labor Laws (CLT), regarding employees who are commercial or traveling representatives and employees who carry out their activities at a place other than where they were hired.

Presidential Provisional Measure No. 800/2017, popularly known as the “Highways PM,” establishes rescheduling of investments as a new regulatory tool for federal highway concession contracts. Subject to future regulation by the Ministry of Transport, Ports, and Civil Aviation, the measure seeks to solve the problem of concentration of investments in the first years of the concession, in the light of the fall in demand for road services.

Rafael Vanzella, Jéssica Borges, and Nathália Fukunaga The Municipality of São Paulo approved its Privatization Plan, which had been awaited since the first months of the new administration, when ideas about the privatization of municipal companies and other assets, as well as concessions for services and public goods, were frequently disclosed

Limited liability companies are finally expressly authorized to issue preferred quotas. Normative Instruction No. 38/2017 of the Department of Corporate Registration and Integration (DREI), among other innovations, changed the wording of item 1.4, II, letter "b", of the Manual for the Registration of Limited Liability Companies to ensure this.

Law No. 13,467/2017 amended article 2 of the Consolidated Labor Laws (CLT), which deals with the concept of an economic group, and included paragraph 3 which expressly states that the mere identity of partners does not constitute an economic group.