6x1: Dino goes against businessmen and maintains the start of the new scale on December 16
The minister preserved the transition deadlines but adjusted the rules for applying work shifts, such as working hours of up to 8:24 if there is no collective agreement.
TL;DR
- Justice Flávio Dino set rules for the end of the 6x1 scale and reduced work hours in Brazil.
- Companies can distribute 42 weekly hours over five days, with daily shifts up to 8 hours and 24 minutes, without paying overtime for the excess if no collective agreement is reached by December 15.
- The decision does not suspend the work hour reduction schedule approved by Congress.
- Companies and unions have 90 days from December 16 to renegotiate collective agreement benefits affected by the reduced jornada.
- If no agreement is reached, companies cannot unilaterally cut other benefits or change agreed-upon conditions.
- Specific rules for sectors like commerce, tourism, agriculture, and maritime work, as well as for small businesses, are to be created within 180 days.
- Contracts with public administration will have a 180-day adaptation period.
- Employees of public companies and mixed-economy companies competing in the market can benefit from differentiated work hour conditions.