End of scale 6x1: businesspeople criticize reduction in working hours in election year and ask for transition

Chamber creates committee to debate the end of the 6x1 scale
Representatives of businesspeople from different sectors of the economy criticized the debate on reducing working hours in an election year and asked for a transition period for the implementation of the measure this Monday (18).
The employer confederations were heard in the special committee of the Chamber of Deputies that discusses the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) that reduces working hours and ends the 6x1 working scale. On Tuesday (19), it will be the workers' representatives' turn to participate.
"We were never against discussing the topic. We just established a position understanding that the discussion was rushed during the election period and that it should mature", said Alexandre Herculano Coelho de Souza Furlan, director of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI).
Luciana Diniz Rodrigues, lawyer at the Legal and Trade Union Directorate of the National Confederation of Commerce in Goods, Services and Tourism (CNC), said she is in favor of an "effective debate".
"May we stimulate debate, not in such a busy period, in such an urgent period as the election", he stated.
"We have to have a broader look, a more refined and in-depth discussion on this issue so as not to decide in the heat of the emotion of an election year", said Rodrigo Hugueney do Amaral Mello, Labor coordinator of the Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Confederation (CNA).
The PEC is treated as a priority of the Lula government for 2026 and counts on the engagement of the president of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), to be approved.
The rapporteur, deputy Leo Prates (Republicanos-PB), is expected to present his opinion on Wednesday (20). The idea is to vote on the text in the special commission on May 26th.
End of the 6x1 scale: how companies anticipate changes in working hours in the Campinas region
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Transition
In addition to postponing the debate, representatives from the business sector asked for a transition period for the implementation of the measure on the grounds that it is not possible to absorb the economic impact of the reduction in working hours immediately.
"We need a certain gradualness in the implementation", he said Genildo Lins de Albuquerque Neto, executive director of the National Confederation of Health, Hospitals, Establishments and Services (CNSaúde).
Elizabeth Regina Nunes Guedes, president of the National Confederation of Educational Establishments (Confenen) stated that parliamentarians need to plan to reduce working hours otherwise it will harm the functioning of schools across the country.
"Talking about reducing workload, maintaining salary and without making objective planning, is make poetry and not labor politics. We need to keep our schools functioning. Vote on a measure like this in an election year, all of a sudden?", he said.
The government is against the transition and defends the immediate implementation of the rules established in the PEC when the text is approved. According to the ministers, when benefits for the business sector are approved in Congress, there is no talk of transition.
"We defend the debate. We are not against it, but we are not and cannot be in a rushed manner as has been put forward in recent times. A change of this magnitude cannot happen overnight", said Bruno da Silva Vasconcelos, coordinator of Labor and Union Relations at the OCB System.
Collective negotiations
The confederations defended the strengthening of negotiations collectives, between bosses and worker representatives (unions) and employers (companies or employer unions), to discuss the journey of specific sectors.
According to the representatives, this is the best way to preserve the particularities of each sector.
"We understand that collective bargaining is the appropriate means for the necessary customization so that the sustainability of the measures is achieved", said Karina Zuanazzi Negreli, legal advisor to the Federation of Commerce of Goods, Services and Tourism of the State of São Paulo (FecomercioSP).

"We hope that this centrality of collective negotiations is maintained, that there is a safe transition, and that this discussion is carried out in depth", he said.
Maria Rita Catonio Barbosa, Labor Legal Manager at the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Furjan) said that strengthening collective negotiations means respecting each region and sectors according to their particularities.
"Strengthening negotiation is the way to preserve companies and so that we don't lose jobs", he stated.

Source: G1

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