Representatives of the Ministry of Social Security warned, on Monday (6), that the advance of the so-called pejotization, which is the hiring of workers as a legal entity (PJ), that is, as a company, would lead to the end of the Social Security model as we know in Brazil.
“Pejotization is much more than a pension reform. It is the end of the Social Security model of Brazil,” said the executive secretary of the Ministry of Social Security, Adroaldo da Cunha, at a public hearing in the Supreme Court (STF).
Convened by Minister Gilmar Mendesthe rapporteur of the action that suspended all cases on alleged contractual fraud of workers via PJ, public hearing receives 78 peopleamong government representatives, civil society, business sector, unions, among others.
“[A pejotização] It will play who is in the CLT out of it. What will remain to society and the state are two ways. Or the state will greatly increase its pension expenses in the coming years and decades, or, which is much more likely to happen, new proposals for pension reform will bring gigantic cuts in this social protection, ”he said.
Adroaldo warned that 73% of social security is funded by the payroll payroll contracted via CLT and that the replacement of 10% of these workers to a PJ regime would bring an annual loss of approximately R $ 47 billion.
The so -called pejotization has been replacing work contracts via work card [CLT]leading to a reduction in labor obligations by companies, which do not need to pay for social security and FGTS, for example, causing billionaire losses to the INSS. Practice is often interpreted by the Labor Court as fraud.
The director of the INSS General Social Security Department, Eduardo da Silva Pereira, cited the aging of the population as a factor that aggravates the financing of social security. For him, the increase in pejotization will aggravate the situation.
“We already have a marked need for financing and this would only aggravate the process. The process of pejotization undoes the social pact built around Social Security, in which we have tripartite financing, employers, workers and government funding social security. The process of pejotization takes the employer from this process. Who will finance is only the government and the employee,” he said.
New architecture
Experts heard at the STF’s public hearing on Monday, said that to avoid the loss of social security collection, it would be necessary to elaborate a new financing model.
Economist Felipe Salto, former secretary of the São Paulo government farm, understands that pejotization is a path without return and should not change.
“The new relationships in the labor market, the incorporation of new technologies, modernization, they are irreversible. We will no longer be able to go back and imagine an ideal world where everyone is simply hired by CLT,” he said.
For Salto, it will be necessary to think of new forms of collection to support public policies, especially social security.
“[Uma sugestão é] The introduction of progressivity in the taxation of legal entities, especially the so -called uniprofessional. A consolidation of the regimes we have today, MEI, Simples, Uniprofessionais and CLT, for the benefit of state financing, ”said the expert.
