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BRAZIL – Suspension of the employment contract for up to two months. Until now it has been the most negotiated measure between employers and workers., according to data from Special Secretariat for Social Security and Labor Ministry of Economy. As of last night, 2,045,799 contracts were stopped, 58.3% of the total of 3.5 million individual and collective negotiations registered by the government.
The second most used measure was the reduction of hours and wages by 50%, with 562,599 contracts in this situation, or 16% of the total. The most drastic cut, of 70%, was that negotiated in another 424,157 contracts. The 25% reduction was registered for 311,975 Brazilian workers.
Another 167,069 intermittent workers with inactive contracts will receive the emergency benefit.
Most of the negotiations were carried out between workers and companies with gross annual income of less than R $ 4.8 million.
Photo: Archive / Agência Brasil / Estadão
According to the Secretariat, more than 569,000 employers have already resorted to the negotiations. with workers to reduce hours and wages or suspend the contract during the new coronavirus crisis. The agreements already sealed will generate a payment of R $ 6.98 billion in emergency benefits workers to compensate for part of lost income.
The government forecast is that 24.5 million contracts will be negotiated to reduce working hours and wages or the suspension of the contract, generating the payment of the benefit. Total expenditure is expected to reach R $ 51.2 billion.
Most of the negotiations (2,074,127, or 59% of the total) was carried out between workers and companies with gross annual income of less than R $ 4.8 million, that is, they are part of the Simples Nacional regime. Another 1,210,710 agreements (34%) involved companies with annual gross income greater than R $ 4.8 million.
A smaller part, of 226,762 visits (6%), involved domestic workers and household workers Registry of Economic Activity of Individuals (CAEPF).
According to the Secretariat, the states that registered the most benefits until last night were São Paulo (29.8%), Rio de Janeiro (10.8%), Minas Gerais (9.8%), Rio Grande do Sul (5.5%) and Paraná (5.4%).
Government measure allows 25%, 50% or 70% reduction in workload, with a proportional cut in wages, for up to three months. It is also possible to suspend the contract for up to two months. In all cases, the government will pay part of the unemployment insurance to which the worker would be entitled.
Individual negotiations are valid for workers with a formal contract and who receive up to R $ 3,135 or who have higher education and earn more than R $ 12,202.12. Those with intermediate wages can also negotiate individually to reduce 25% of working hours and wages, but they depend on collective agreements, negotiated by the category unions, for more radical changes to the contract.
Today, the insurance portion ranges from R $ 1,045 to R $ 1,813.03. In the reduction of hours, the government pays the same percentage of the cut (25%, 50% or 70%) calculated on the insurance. After the contract is suspended, the government pays 70% of the insurance, in the case of employees of large companies, or 100%, in the case of workers in small and medium-sized companies.
In the sum of the shared wage and the part paid by the government, no worker will receive less than the minimum wage.
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