Congress schedules the promulgation of the end of the 6x1 scale for Friday (16)

The National Congress is expected to enact this Friday (16) the end of the 6x1 scale. The proposal was approved this Wednesday (14) night by the Senate.

The vote was symbolic. The PEC was approved handily: 75 votes in favor, one against. The same score in both rounds. The only vote against was from Senator Hamilton Mourão, from the Republicans.

The proposal provides for a reduction in weekly working hours, with two days of rest, one of them preferably on Sundays, and without a reduction in wages. Two months after the publication of the amendment, two days off per week will become valid, and the working day will fall from the current 44 to 42 hours. And, a year later, a new reduction of two hours.

This Thursday (15), the unions spoke of achievement. The CUT said that "the country's growth only makes sense if accompanied by income distribution, decent work, a dignified life and full democracy." The president of the National Confederation of Commercial Workers stated that the approval of the PEC "demonstrates the rightness of guaranteeing labor laws to ensure more dignity for those who develop the country on a daily basis".

Congress marks the promulgation of the end of the 6x1 scale for Friday (16) — Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction

Entities representing sectors of the economy expressed concern. The National Confederation of Industry stated that the changes "hit the entire production sector hard, which will need to adjust its production and increase its costs amid an adverse economic scenario in the country, which already faces a heavy tax burden and stratospheric interest rates."

The president of the Brazilian Association of Bars and Restaurants said that the new working hours will have a negative impact on the economy.

"We have a general increase in costs in all sectors of the economy. In our case, 20% more to maintain the same service offering, and this will be passed on to price, reducing consumer purchasing power", says Paulo Solmucci, president of Abrasel.

Earlier in the evening, the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre, said that Congress will promulgate the text this Friday (16). The government is preparing the regulation of the PEC. Parliamentarians can discuss other projects to adjust the 40-hour day for so-called differentiated regimes, such as, for example, workers on oil platforms and transport.