Government negotiates to transform ordinance on work on holidays into bill – 02/27/2024 – Panel

Government, trade union centrals and parliamentarians met this Tuesday morning (27) to negotiate the replacement of the ordinance to regulate work on holidays with a bill that may include parameters for the collection of union contributions authorized by the STF from non-members.

The meeting was attended by ministers Luiz Marinho (Labor) and Alexandre Padilha (Institutional Relations), from centers such as UGT (General Union of Workers), CUT (Central Única dos Trabalhadores) and Força Sindical and parliamentarians from fronts such as Commerce and Service and Entrepreneurship.

The meeting was scheduled to try to reconcile the government’s interests in regulating work on holidays and those of parliamentarians, who threatened to overturn the ordinance initially scheduled to come into force from March 1st.

After much debate, it was agreed that the ordinance would be suspended for 90 days, during which those involved would analyze the text and try to approve it in Congress. The possibility of sending a provisional measure was raised, but the parliamentarians present recalled that this format has been met with resistance among deputies and senators.

In this text, the centers defended that parameters be inserted for the collection of union contributions authorized by the STF from non-members.

At the meeting, Marinho said he was surprised by Congress’s reaction to the first attempt to issue the ordinance, in November, and stated that the unions were greatly victimized by the labor reform approved under Michel Temer’s government.

“The previous government gave this permanent authorization to work in commerce during the holiday and now the situation has gotten bad, some businesspeople don’t want to talk. The idea is to send it as a bill to build pacification in Congress”, says Ricardo Patah, president of UGT, which represents around 60% of commercial workers in the country.

“Commercial workers work like public servants, they have a mission, but there is no compensation. They are the category that works the most in the country today. They need to have, at a minimum, payment for basic food baskets, meal vouchers, some financial compensation.”

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