The 2017 labor reform in Brazil was a significant change in the country's

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( pt, Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho). According to the government, the goal of the reform was to combat unemployment and the still ongoing

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. The bill was proposed and sent to the

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by the president

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on December 23, 2016. Since then, during its processing in the

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, it was going through several debates and additions to the original bill, for example, the proposal to end the obligatory syndicate (labor union) tax paid by workers hired under the CLT. The bill was approved by the Chamber on April 26, 2017, with 296 favorable votes and 177 against. Later, in the

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, it was approved on July 11, 2017, by 50 versus 26 votes. It was then sanctioned by the president on July 13, 2017, with no vetoes. The law will start to be valid on November 11 of the same year, 120 days after the sanction. Labor reform was controversial in Brazilian society. Its supporters argue that the reform addresses legal certainty and increase the number of jobs. Its critics argue that the reform violates the

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and

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conventions signed by Brazil.

Changes

Most of the changes involve intricate details. The most simple changes were:

References

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Changes

See also

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