Managing an increasingly aging workforce is one of the key
socioeconomic trends of our times and a crucial issue for many of
the world's enterprises. Private practice lawyers across Latin
America outline the laws in their respective countries concerning
an older demographic in the workplace as well as a number of recent
updates across the region.
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Brazil
According to a study by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and
Statistics (IBGE), the life expectancy of the Brazilian population
increased 30.3 years between 1940 and 2016 while the birth rate
declined 31% between 2000 and 2015. It is no wonder that the
increase in the number of elderly people in Brazil has drawn the
attention and efforts of the government to resume the debate and
proposition to reform the country’s social security
programme. There is now a legislative bill pending approval by
Congress, providing for, among other initiatives, an increase in
the minimum age for retirement and the
