Brazil Expands Visitor Driving Privileges for Rio Olympics
Foreign visitors to Brazil from one hundred countries can now drive vehicles throughout the entire country with only a valid...
July 8, 2016Topic
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Opinion: Brazil and the Laws of No Responsibility
Opinion, by Simon Thomas RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil is chock full of laws, rules, and regulations (LR&Rs). This...
April 30, 2016
Opinion: Brazil’s Presumption of Guilt – a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – The decision by Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) to permit judges to...
February 24, 2016
Brazil Law Allows Companies to Cut Hours and Wages
Law allows companies to reduce working hours and up to thirty percent of employees’ salaries.
November 20, 2015
Rio’s City Council Bans Uber and Private Transportation Services
The bill, which regulates the transportation of passengers in the city, would ban services such as Uber.
August 26, 2015
Proposed Law May Change Outsourced Labor Benefits in Brazil
Proposed law in Brazil addresses what types of a business activity can be defined as eligible for outsourced labor.
April 10, 2015
Tougher Law for Crimes Against Women in Brazil
The country occupies the seventh position among countries with the highest rate of violent deaths among women.
March 11, 2015
Brazil’s 10-Year Education Plan Sanctioned by Rousseff
After almost four years of debates in Congress, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff finally signed into law the country’s new ten-year...
July 22, 2014
Deadly Fire May Bring Regulation Change
A nightclub fire that claimed the lives of 234 people in Santa Maria has sparked an urgent investigation into whether...
January 29, 2013