Edição Novembro/Dezembro 2019 do VistaBrazil, publicação periódica em inglês do Escritório sobre desenvolvimentos econômicos, legais e políticos no Brasil

In accordance with TST Act 397, the sums required for an appeal bond are to be increased as from August 1, 2015.

A decisão do TST havia determinado a substituição dos índices de correção monetária aplicados aos débitos trabalhistas, afastando a utilização da Taxa Referencial Diária (TRD) e determinando a adoção do IPCA-E.

The Brazilian Supreme Court has fundamentally altered the landscape for obtaining free legal aid in labor disputes, replacing automatic approval based on worker declarations with a new income-based threshold system. This landmark ruling establishes concrete evidentiary requirements and shifts the burden of proof, creating significant implications for access to justice in employment litigation.

Recently published information shows that Brazil's economic struggle continues to affect employment. According to information provided by the agency IBGE, the unemployment rate after the first quarter of 2016 was 11.2%...

The Sixth Panel of the Superior Labor Court upheld the appeal of a female employee of the Richard Hugh Fisk Foundation, who, working beyond her normal working hours, did not enjoy the pause for rest foreseen in article 384 of the Consolidated Labor Laws, which ensures to female workers the pause to rest for 15 minutes in case of extension of normal working hours.

The Brazilian Congress has approved an important labor reform bill. The new law, Law 13.467, is a sweeping modernization of more than a hundred clauses in Brazil's Consolidated Labor Law...

On its turn, although Brazilian labor courts accept the enforcement of non-solicitation and non-poaching obligations without requiring any compensation, such obligations ends up being easy to be circumvented...

In a ruling issued on August 4th last, the Plenary of the Superior Labor Court of Appeals (TST) found unconstitutional the text of the caput of Article 39 of Law 8.177/91...

In a case examined by the 9th Panel of the Regional Labor Court of the 3rd Region the claimant alleged that each employee had a number on their shirts and when the defendant needed to call the workers, it called them by numbers in a totally impersonal way.

The Labor Court of Rio de Janeiro granted a preliminary injunction ordering the Ministry of Labor to ratify the termination of a former employee.

The legislative bill no. 606/20111 which alters and includes provisions to the Consolidation of Labor Laws is currently pending at the Senate.

On April 14, 2025, Justice Gilmar Mendes ordered the nationwide suspension of all labor lawsuits questioning the legality of hiring independent contractors or legal entities...

The effects of the TST's decision shall prevail since June 30, 2009, the date on which the provision that was declared unconstitutional by the STF (Article 1-F of Law 9,494/1997, introduced by Law 11,960/2009) entered into effect.

On the evening of 10 November at 8.30pm, all tv channels in Brazil were interrupted to broadcast an announcement by labour minister, Ronaldo Nogueira, who greeted the country's 102 million workforce...

An operational security inspector filed a labor claim against several companies that hires security services from the company where he worked...

O Supremo Tribunal Federal suspendeu na última quarta-feira (14.10.2015), por meio de liminar, os efeitos da decisão proferida pelo Pleno do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho em 04.08.2015...

On September 30, the National Council of Justice (CNJ) took an important step to encourage negotiation between employers and employees, expedite conflict resolution, and reduce the number of cases filed in Labor Courts.

2º O instrumento de acordo celebrado será arquivado na entidade sindical dos trabalhadores.

A 5ª Turma do TRT da 1ª Região – Rio de Janeiro, decidiu recentemente que cabem honorários de sucumbência em embargos à execução opostos após a promulgação da Reforma Trabalhista (Lei 13.467/17).