Additional Labor Rights For Domestic Employees

Keywords: labor rights, domestic employees, Constitutional Amendment,

A proposal for Constitutional Amendment was approved and will increase labor rights for domestic employees.

The main objective of the proposal to amend the Federal Constitution is the equality of rights between domestic employees and other employees. Previously, the rights foreseen in article 7, sole paragraph of the Constitution, already granted to domestic employees the minimum salary, irreducible salary, 13th salary, weekly paid day off, holidays, maternity leave, paternity leave, period of notice and retirement.

The new rules, which depend only on their publication in the Official Gazette, will include in that list the fixed working hours of 8 hours per day and 44 hours per week, overtime with minimum additional of 50% of a normal hour, extra 20% for night work, payment of 8% to Unemployment Compensation Fund, unemployment compensation, remuneration higher than or equal to minimum