On July 13, 2017, President Michel Temer approved Law No.
13,467, which amends the Brazilian Labor Code
(Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho - CLT),
as well as the laws regulating temporary work (Law No. 6,019, of
1.3.74), the Severance Guarantee Fund (Law No. 8,036, of 5.11.90),
and the organization of the Brazilian social security system (Law
No. 8,212, of 7.24.91). The principal purpose of the so called
"labor reform" is to update existing legislation to bring
it in line with current labor relationships.
Rights ensured to workers by the Brazilian Constitution, such as
the minimum wage, Christmas bonus, remunerated weekly day off and
annual vacation have been preserved.
Among the amendments, it is worth highlighting the regulation of
remote work, the creation of the so-called intermittent labor, the
possibility of fractioning the statutory annual 30-day paid
vacations into three separate periods, the change in definition of
"economic group", the end of the
