Brazil's Temer Wants to End 8-Hour Work Day for Temp Workers

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telesur

Brazil's Temer Wants to End 8-Hour Work Day for Temp Workers




President Temer with Senate President Renan Calheiros during his presidential inauguration
ceremony in Brasilia | Photo: Reuters

The post-coup Brazilian government is proposing a law that would expand the working day for temporary workers from 8 to 12 hours.

The announcement on Thursday was made by the head of the Labor Ministry, Ronaldo Nogueira, who indicated that the average 44-hour working week day will remain.

Noriega told a local radio in Sao Paulo that the goal of the project is to end "labor trials tormenting" businessemen in the country.

This is one of the measures that the government of President Michel Temer proposed to change once he took office, after Dilma Rousseff was ousted.

Read more: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazils-Temer-Wants-to-End-8-Hour-Work-Day-for-Temp-Workers--20160909-0018.html

[Ken Burch]

1. Does anyone here need any more proof that the "corruption" case against Dilma Rousseff

is nothing more than a (so-far) bloodless right-wing coup against a democratically elected left-of-center president, a figure whose only real crime is protecting the poor against austerity?

[Sherman A1]

2. Well,

if the 12 hour day is so good, I think it should start with those proposing this idea.

[Javaman]

3. evil bastards.

they start with expanding work hours to 12 hour days, then what's next?

elimination of benefits to cut corporate overhead?

then child labor, half the work for half the price?

[lostnfound]

5. If there's child labor, at least the kids would get to see their parents once in a while

A 12 hour work day makes that difficult.

[lark]

4. Beazil had excellent working conditions under Dilma.

That's why the oligarchs deposed her. So sad what these fuckers are doing to that beautiful country.