Government and transport apps close agreement for remuneration and INSS

After several delays and disagreements, the federal government intends to present a proposal for minimum remuneration and social security contributions for app-based car drivers next week. The text was defined in a negotiation between the Ministry of Labor, headed by Luiz Marinho, and the apps’ representatives in Brazil.

Initially, the agreement was signed only with passenger and parcel transport companies, such as Uber and 99. There is still no consensus with companies focused on food delivery and motorcycle transport, such as Ifood and Rappi.

The agreement – signed with Uber and 99 – provides that workers have a minimum remuneration and the right to Social Security – with the companies paying part of the social security contribution, and should not determine the employment relationship between the drivers and the platforms.

As soon as the government defines the text, it will be sent as a bill to the National Congress. The project should not bring recognition of an employment relationship along the lines of the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), but a new legal relationship should be established for platform employees, following the example of what already exists in other categories. This is the case of casual port workers, who are not employees of a company, but are registered and registered with the Labor Management Body (OGMO), and thus, represented by the unions of their categories.

The draft GT should have been presented by the end of September last year, but there was no agreement between the companies and the delivery drivers’ representatives. The main impasse is payment per hour logged into the application, claimed by professionals, and not per hour actually worked, as companies want.