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Executive Order 936/20 (MP 936/20), published on April 1, aims to mitigate the damage caused by the covid-19 pandemic by introducing measures such as a proportional reduction in work hours and salary and temporary suspension of employment...

The federal government published, in an extra edition of the Official Gazette on April 1, Executive Order No. 936/20 (MP 936), which institutes the Emergency Program for the Maintenance of Employment and Income. The objective is to protect workers...

The new form of the coronavirus, called SARSCoV-2 and causing covid-19, was first discovered in Wuhan, China, in November of 2019. The coronavirus, previously associated with other known viral forms, such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, suffered a...

Health professionals are at the forefront of fighting the covid-19 pandemic and treating people affected by the coronavirus. Decree No. 10,282/20 reinforced the role of these workers by recognizing health care (including medical and hospital...

After the promulgation of Executive Order No. 927 (MP 927), Caixa Econômica Federal (CEF) published Circular No. 893, on March 25, to regulate the temporary suspension of the mandatory payment of FGTS for the periods of March, April, and May of...

Executive Order No. 927/20 (MP 927/20), published on March 22 with a series of measures to preserve employment and income during the covid-19 pandemic, allows employers to grant early vacation (individual or company-wide) to workers in order to...

Published with the objective of mitigating the economic losses resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, Executive Order No. 927/20, of March 22 (MP 927/20), also sought to ensure compliance with the constitutional principles of a broad defense and...

Executive Order No. 927/20 (MP 927/20) provided in its article 13 that, during the state of public emergency in Brazil due to the covid-19 pandemic, employers may accelerate federal, state, district, and municipal non-religious holidays, upon...

Within the package of measures promulgated by the federal government on March 22 (Executive Order No. 927/20 (MP 927/20) to change labor relations guidelines in Brazil during the covid-19 pandemic, three articles directly amend the rules on...

Faced with the state of public emergency recognized by Legislative Decree No. 6, of March 20, and the public health emergency of international importance due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus (covid-19), the federal government published...

Executive Order No. 927/20 (MP 927), which sets forth labor measures to address the state of public emergency resulting from the covid-19 pandemic, establishes that cases of contamination by the coronavirus will not be considered occupational,...

Executive Order No. 927/20 (MP 927/20), enacted on March 22, provides for labor measures that may be adopted by employers to confront the state of public emergency decreed as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. In order to preserve jobs and reduce...

The report of the Joint Committee responsible for evaluating Executive Order 905 of 2019 (MP 2019) confirms a step backwards from the initial proposal on negotiations with respect to profit sharing programs (PLR). While the original text of MP...

Faced with the covid-19 pandemic, companies have discussed possible actions to help stop the spread of the virus. We highlight below the main options for corporate environments and some precautions that should be taken from a legal point of view....

The world has seen, in recent days, a global escalation of the coronavirus beyond the borders of China and Italy. A few days ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19, a disease caused by the virus, to be pandemic, and stated that...

Prejudices and systematic practices of discrimination against people with disabilities in the work environment have motivated international bodies such as the International Labour Organization (ILO) to have this problem covered in their conventions...

The deliberations and voting on the report of Executive Order (MP) No. 905/2019, scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, have motivated various discussions on the subject, especially in public hearings scheduled for this purpose. MP 905/2019 instituted the...

It is an increasingly common trend at companies to create areas of innovation to stimulate the creativity of employees and reinvent the business model, in relation to both internal processes and flows and products and services. This initiative...

Discussions related to working hours and control thereof are extremely relevant for companies in Brazil, due to the large number of lawsuits in the Labor Courts involving the payment of overtime, a problem historically related to two factors: The...

Executive Order No. 905/19 (MP 905), which instituted the Green and Yellow Employment Contract, implemented various changes to unemployment insurance and accident assistance. Current unemployment insurance rules The benefit is assured for (i)...

Labor and employment

Labor inspection and compliance with MP 936

MP 936/20: temporary suspension of employment contracts

Ebook: analysis of the general impacts of covid-19 and MP Nos. 927 and 928 on labor relations

MP 927/20: changes in the work hours of health care workers

CEF Circular 893: guidelines on the suspension of mandatory payment of FGTS

Implications of the acceleration of vacations provided for in MP 927/20

Impacts of the coronavirus on labor inspections and administrative proceedings

MP 927/20: changes in federal, state, and municipal holidays

MP 927/20: Suspension of administrative requirements in occupational safety and health

MP 927/20 and suspension of the FGTS payment requirement

MP 927/20: social security classification of workers contaminated by the coronavirus

MP 927/20: changes in the hours bank to face the covid pandemic -19

In a step back from MP 905, joint committee proposes compulsory call notice of labor unions for negotiations of PLRs

Coronavirus: home office, teleworking, or vacation?

Coronavirus: impacts on employment contracts and guidance for leave of employees in quarantine or isolation

Discrimination in the work environment and affirmative actions for its eradication

The future of MP 905/2019 and potential changes in labor law

Areas of innovation at companies: impacts of intellectual property on labor law

How do legislative changes on control of work hours affect the daily lives of companies and employees?

Impact of MP 905/19 on unemployment insurance and accident assistance

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