End of 6×1: Abisolo says that PEC hinders flexibility and harms agriculture

The proposed constitutional end to the 6×1 work schedule raised an alarm in the agribusiness sector.

Sector entities argue that the particularities of agriculture need to be considered in discussions about changes in working hours, at risk of negative impacts on rural production.

In an interview, Clorialdo Roberto Levrero, from the deliberative council of Abisolo (Brazilian Association of Technology Industries for Plant Production), highlighted that agricultural work has its own dynamics that cannot be ignored by rigid and uniform legislation.

"These particularities are not just in the countryside, they are also based on agriculture", he stated.

Production windows and seasonality
Among the specificities mentioned by Clorialdo are the planting and harvesting windows, which impose extremely short deadlines on producers.

"Soybeans, for example, have 15 to 20 days for you to put in the field. So, the farmer often cannot respect the schedules, he has to do it during that period, otherwise it has a direct impact on final productivity", he explained.

In addition to activities directly linked to the field, Clorialdo pointed out that the entire input chain is also affected.

He mentioned the case of industrial equipment that operates continuously, such as furnaces and sulfuric acid-based equipment, whose shutdown would imply extremely high recovery costs.

"These are flexibilities that are extremely important that they are not rigidified by a law", he highlighted.

Sector proposal: Modernization with transition period
For Clorialdo, labor legislation needs to be updated and modernized, but without disregarding the realities of each economic segment.

He mentioned a manifesto prepared by Fiesc, with more than 3 thousand signatures representing 90% of the Brazilian economy, which defends this position.

"The proposal is very simple: it cannot close its eyes to the particularities that exist in the nature of each segment", he said.

The Abisolo representative also defended that any legislative change must be constructed jointly between industry, commerce, workers' representative entities and the government, with an adequate transition period.

"A rule of law that has a transition period so that adjustments can be made without generating an absurd impact", he stated, criticizing the proposal to carry out a radical change in such a short period of time.

Current legislation and recent challenges
When asked whether the current legislation already meets the needs of work in the field, Clorialdo assessed that, under normal procedures, the law meets between 70% and 80% of the sector.

However, he pointed out a more recent problem: the difficulty of registering harvest workers, as part of the workforce does not want to lose government benefits to be formally hired on farms during the harvest.

"This is a newer and more frequent problem that needs to be adjusted," he concluded.

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