The Consolidation of Labor Laws Decree Law No. 5452 ( pt, Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho, CLT) is the decree which governs

labor relations Labor relations is a field of study that can have different meanings depending on the context in which it is used. In an international context, it is a subfield of labor history that studies the human relations with regard to work in its broadest ...

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. It was issued in 1943 by

Getúlio Vargas Getúlio Dornelles Vargas (; 19 April 1882 – 24 August 1954) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954. Due to his long and controversial tenure as Brazi ...

, President of Brazil and was officially adopted on May 1st, 1943. The Constitution allowed him to issue decrees to regulate all matters that were supposed to be regulated by the federal legislative branch while the Parliament didn't assemble. The Parliament never assembled during the period in which that Constitution was valid. Some sources defend that the CLL was partly inspired by labor laws under Benito Mussolini in

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, although there is no prove regarding that. Article 199 of the Consolidation of Labor Laws protects a worker's right to sit.

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External links

English translation of Consolidation of Brazilian Labor Laws
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