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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 15 October 2018

In brief: Brazil

* A judge from Brazil’s supreme labour court (TST), Ives Gandra da Silva Martins Filho, has defended the labour reform implemented by incumbent President Michel Temer’s government last year, as part of its package of reforms aimed at combatting the country’s economic crisis. The reform has been severely criticised by trade unions who feel the new law violates workers’ rights. In an interview with Uruguayan daily El Observador, Martins Filho praised the modernisation of Brazil’s labour laws, saying that it has allowed for increased job creation and that it has been an essential step in leading Brazil out of its economic recession. The labour reform is one of the many points on which presidential candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad differ: leftist Haddad has promised to revise the reform if elected, whereas Bolsonaro has said he would maintain it.

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