Entrepreneurs need incentives, such as simplified legislation, to create jobs, President Jair Bolsonaro said today (10). In a signing ceremony of the Infralegal Labor Regulatory Framework decree, he declared that entrepreneurship has been facilitated since he took office in 2019.
“Employment is created by the private sector, but entrepreneurs need to be stimulated for this”, said the president. For him, it is less difficult to undertake in Brazil today. “A lot has been done since 2019”.
The president stressed that the government managed to create formal jobs in 2020, even with the covid-19 pandemic, and improved performance in 2021. According to him, this is happening because of the reduction in bureaucracy.
“We ended 2019 with a positive balance of jobs, we ended 2020, in the pandemic, positive. 2021 we already have 2 and a half million jobs created. Where does that come from? It comes from reducing bureaucracy”, said Bolsonaro.
Last week, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced the data review of the General Register of Employed and Unemployed Persons (Caged), which made job creation in 2020 drop by half. Instead of 142,690 jobs, the country opened 75,883 last year.
The ceremony was attended by the ministers of Labor and Welfare, Onyx Lorenzoni; the Civil House, Ciro Nogueira; of Citizenship, João Roma; and the president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto.
Simplification
The Infralegal Labor Regulatory Framework gathered, in 15 norms, more than 1 thousand decrees, ordinances and labor normative instructions. The document was debated in ten public consultations, which received more than 6,000 suggestions from society. This was the first time that the infra-legal labor legislation (which does not depend on a change in legislation) was revised, without loss of rights for workers.
According to Minister Onyx Lorenzoni, the new regulatory framework helps to reduce bureaucracy, resulting in simplification for employers and employees. “Today’s step is extraordinary. The decision to establish a permanent program of labor simplification and reduction of bureaucracy will guarantee to all those who undertake in Brazil that people’s lives can be transformed simply and efficiently,” he said. Every two years the rules will be re-examined.
The rules cover matters such as work permits, professional apprenticeships, Christmas bonuses, worker’s meal program, electronic time registration, union and professional registration, in addition to matters related to inspection, such as a certificate of approval for personal protective equipment.
Infra-legal norms that were obsolete were excluded, such as rules for domestic workers that lost their validity with the complementary law of 2015 that regulated the category’s work regime. Ordinances on attendance registration to control working hours, differentiated procedures for issuing a work permit for foreigners, rules for professional apprenticeship and certificates for personal protective equipment were also revoked.
