Brazil's Senate Votes to End the Six-Day Workweek
⏮ BeforeSix-day workweeks were customary, with full-time work counted as 44 hours.
✅ NowThe Senate has voted 75 to 1 in favour of ending the practice by constitutional amendment.
In short
- The Senate voted 75 to 1 in favour of the constitutional amendment.
- Full-time work had been counted as 44 hours a week, against 40 in the US.
- The report is cut short and does not confirm the amendment's final stage.
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A six-day week was the norm in one of the richer economies in the world. The Senate vote is a step toward a shorter standard week for millions of workers. The report does not confirm the final rules or when they would take effect.
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With Brazil’s senate voting 75 to 1 in favor, one wonders what took them so long? The nation was one of the richest in the world that still had a customary 6-day workweek, with fulltime employment considered 44 hours, rather than the 40 we know of in the US. That changed with the introduction of […] The post Brazil Ends Long Tradition of 6-Day Workweek via Constitutional Amendment appeared first on Good News Network .
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