The government must send to the National Congress, right after Carnival, a bill with constitutional urgency to end the scale of six days of work for one day of rest (6×1), confirmed this Tuesday (3) the leader of the PT in the Chamber, Lindbergh Farias (RJ).
“What’s the advantage of that? [PL com urgência constitucional]. It has to be voted on in the Chamber in 45 days. So, you guide the Chamber and the country. This is a central debate, it is a priority for President Lula”, highlighted the parliamentarian.
In message sent to Congress At the opening of legislative work, this Monday (2), President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the end of the 6×1 scale without salary reduction.
“It’s not fair for a person to work hard all week and only have one day to rest their body and mind and enjoy their family,” said the president.
At the end of last year, the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) approved the end of the 6×1 scaleand the text would be ready to be voted on in the House plenary. The Chamber also discusses the topic.
Despite these initiatives being processed in the Legislature, PT leader Lindbergh Farias argued that a project sent by the government with constitutional urgency has more strength to be approved in Parliament more quickly.
“If we were to wait, because in the Chamber it is in the Labor Committee, it is a very long process, you go through several committees. This is a debate that society demands to be treated as a priority”, he stated.
Lindbergh acknowledged that the issue is rejected by employers, but believes that it is possible to overcome resistance to reducing working hours.
“When slavery was abolished, people said that this would be a catastrophe. When they created the minimum wage, they said that this would put a lot of people out of work. When they created the thirteenth wage too, that was always the case. Several countries in the world are already adapted, they don’t work on a 6×1 scale. Several sectors of the economy here too”, he argued.
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The PT leader also said that the party will support the creation of parliamentary commissions of inquiry (CPIs) to investigate irregular operations by Banco Master, which allegedly sold fraudulent securities to raise funds in the financial market.
According to Lindbergh, the party will support the CPI proposal by deputy Rodrigo Rollemberg (PSB-DF) and the mixed parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPMI) presented by Heloísa Helena (PSOL-RJ) and Fernanda Melchionna (PSOL-RS), but should not support the PL proposal.
“We are not going to get defensive on a matter that our government is investigating, which aims to clarify everything and I am sure that a lot of things will appear. What we are not going to do is sign the PL’s CPMI, including that the CPMI that they present has a distorted object. It is not to analyze Master’s banking frauds, they try to politicize it”, he concluded.
