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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 13 December 2018
Limited success to date for Brazil’s labour reform
Labour reform, one of the flagship economic policies of the administration of President Michel Temer, marked its one-year anniversary in November. To-date the new legislation has helped bring down dramatically the number of lawsuits brought by aggrieved workers and cut the amount of damages they seek in compensation. However, it has largely failed in its efforts to generate new jobs. Unemployment remains stubbornly high at 11.9% and the legislation has not helped create a plethora of part-time job opportunities, as many of its architects had hoped.
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