Lula creates group to discuss work rule through application

The government’s intention to draw up rules on these two issues had already been anticipated at least since the election campaign, last year. Now, with the decrees signed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, two working groups were created that will elaborate the normative acts.

The government intends to present a proposal to regulate the relations of work through apps in the first semester, as declared in March by the Minister of Labor and Employment, Luiz Marinho.

Last week, Marinho and Lula signed, on an official trip to Spain, memorandums for cooperation with the Spanish government in the elaboration of a regulation, aiming to take advantage of the experience of the European country, which in 2021 created rules for this type of activity through a labor reform.

In a speech after a meeting with international trade union centrals, in March, Marinho said that the ministry is “listening and experiencing various experiences spread around the world”.

Present at the meeting, Lula spoke in the sense of combating labor exploitation and the high degree of informality in the country, without directly mentioning the applications. “We need to rethink the relationships in the world of work and recover rights and dignity for workers”, Lula wrote on Twitter after the meeting.

Officially, the newly created working group must present a proposal for a normative act within 150 days, a period that can be extended for an equal period. The group will have 15 government representatives – including four from the Ministry of Labor and Employment, which will be in charge of coordinating the work.

The group should also be made up of 15 workers’ representatives, all appointed by the main trade union centrals – Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Central dos Sindicatos Brasileiros (CSB), Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras do Brasil (CTB), Força Sindical, Nova Workers’ Union Center (NSCT) and General Workers’ Union (UGT).

The working group is completed by 15 employers’ representatives, including members of employers’ organizations such as the Brazilian Association of Mobility and Technology (Amobitec), which brings together the largest companies in the segment operating in Brazil, including Uber, iFood, Amazon, 99 and Buser, among others.