Article 507-A of the Consolidated Labor Laws (CLT), included by the Labor Reform (Law No. 13,467/2017), stipulated that, for employees whose remuneration exceeds twice the ceiling of the General Social Security Regime (RGPS), it will be possible to enter into arbitration agreements, provided that it is per their own initiative or their express agreement, under the terms established in Law No. 9,307/1996 (Arbitration Law).

Law No. 13,699/2018, published on August 2, amended article 2 of Law No. 10,257/2001 (the City Statute) so as to refer to conditions applicable to domestic workers:

Every day, about 60 billion messages are sent on WhatsApp, an application that reached the mark of 1.5 billion active users per month this year.[1] In Brazil, the instant messenger reached 120 million users about a year ago, equivalent to more than half of the country's inhabitants. Parallel to this rapid spreading in recent years, there has been a significant increase in dismissals due to the improper use of software in Brazil due to the tenuous line between their use in private and professional life.

The 1st Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), in the judgment on Special Appeal No. 1.477.320, recognized the right to PIS and Cofins credits in relation to transportation in transactions to purchase vehicles from the manufacturer by the dealer with the purpose of later resale to the final consumer.

All of the excerpts transcribed above have been circulated in the news section on the website of the Superior Labor Court (TST) in recent months. The professionals who have been litigating in the Labor Courts for some time know that decisions favoring greater reasonableness and flexibility in the application of procedural law were not common.

The Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro has enacted a new special program for the payment of tax debts and fines from the State Accounting Court, through Complementary Law 182/2018 (LC 182/2018), published last Friday (September 21). Justified by the need to pay the 13th salaries of the Executive's officers, the measure came as an exception to Complementary Law 175/2016, which prohibited the grant of amnesty or remission of tax debts by the State of Rio de Janeiro for 10 years.