Minimum wage must be readjusted on May 1st

The Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho, stated that the minimum wage, currently worth R$ 1,302, should be increased later this year. The last readjustment of the national floor came into effect on January 1st. “We are discussing the search for fiscal space to change the value of the minimum wage later this year. If there is fiscal space, we will have to announce a change for May 1”, said the minister in an interview with the Brasil em Pauta program, which will on air this Sunday (12), on TV Brasil.

In addition to the new readjustment, the resumption of the Minimum Wage Appreciation Policy is also one of the portfolio’s priorities. According to the minister, the policy showed good results in the previous administrations of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when Marinho was Minister of Labor, between 2005 and 2007.

Related news:December closes with a negative balance of 431,011 jobs, says Novo Caged. Minimum wage of R$ 1,320 will be negotiated with union centrals.” of workers throughout Brazil, driven by the Minimum Wage Valuation Policy, which consisted of, in addition to inflation, ensuring real economic growth to provide sustainability, to provide predictability, to provide credibility above all for all agents. It is important that the economic agents, the business community, the mayors, the governors, know what is the predictability of the wage base in Brazil, and the minimum wage is the great wage base in Brazil”, he explained.

“See, if this policy had not been interrupted after the coup against President Dilma and the dark government of Temer and Bolsonaro, the minimum wage today would be worth R$1,396. worth the minimum wage today. Therefore, it was a policy that worked very well”, highlighted Marinho.

During the interview, the Minister of Labor spoke of the portfolio’s expectations for this new administration and highlighted the repair of labor relations as one of the priorities. “We went through a government that worked on a process of dismantling labor relations. So the collective contract, labor negotiations, all of this was fiercely attacked, labor legislation, labor protection, all of this was attacked. We need to face this dilemma, to review what was harmed in this process of labor relations, so that we can once again resume the negotiation process, to value the value of work itself, the salary mass, job and income generation. this process,” he said.

Still on the expectations of the new management, Marinho highlighted the resumption of public works as an impetus for economic growth and job opportunities. “We have around 14,000 works stopped in Brazil, this creates a new expectation, expectation of generating jobs. Work is job in vein”, he highlighted. “These works are resumed practically simultaneously in Brazil, I am sure that this will have a great impact on the resumption of economic growth”, he added.

Brazil is experiencing accelerated changes in the labor market caused by technological advances. In the interview, the Minister of Labor also spoke about these new service modalities, such as work through apps. “Surely it is a trend that comes with a lot of force. It needs to be introduced in collective negotiations, otherwise we could have a lot of unprotected people in the labor market”, he stated.

“And have in this [cenário] the story of app workers, which many people think is just a pizza delivery guy, or that it’s just an Uber driver, of the various platforms for transporting people, but it’s not, it’s present in health, education, intermediation even of housework. Therefore, we need to fully understand this new moment”, explained Luiz Marinho.

Still on the subject, the minister addressed the precariousness of the labor market observed in recent years. “It took place on a gigantic scale and is exactly where we are at. [nos] referring. It is a maturation that we will have to go through. My concern is with workers, they are the ones we want to protect, because companies are exploiting this workforce too much”, concluded the minister. “What is not possible is lack of protection. Today there are thousands and millions of workers, all over the world, not just in Brazil, working with absolutely no social protection,” he added.