Brazil's government negotiates transition rules for ending 6x1 work schedule

The 6x1 schedule affects millions of Brazilian workers' rest time and work-life balance, with exemptions potentially widening labor protections inequality.

Brazil stands at a crossroads in its long relationship with labor and dignity, as the government moves to dismantle the 6x1 work schedule — a system that has long asked millions of workers to surrender six days for every one of rest. A constitutional amendment is taking shape, but its architecture reveals the familiar tension between reform and exception: those who earn the most would be freed from any hour limits at all, while protections would flow primarily to lower-wage workers. The Chamber of Deputies is expected to vote within days, and what emerges will say much about whose rest a socie

Brazil's government negotiates transition rules for ending 6x1 work schedule

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