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, 2015Topic
Wages
Impact of Lava Jato on Brazil’s GDP Could Reach R$140 Billion
The Lava Jato (Carwash) corruption scandal in Brazil involving oil giant Petrobras and some of the country's largest construction companies...
August 11, 2015
Brazil Unemployment Rate Increases While Wages Fall
Average wages in Brazil for March registered the steepest monthly decline in twelve years, while the unemployment rate increased.
April 29, 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
Brazil’s Unemployment Rate Falls Again in October
Despite increasing inflation and slow economy, unemployment rate continues to decline.
November 19, 2014
Transparency Reveals Super-Salaries
Since the Lei de Acesso à Informação (Freedom of Information Law) was passed it has emerged that many public servants...
March 19, 2013
Petrobras Improves Wage Offer to Union
Brazil's FUP (Single Federation of Oil Workers) has unanimously accepted a sweetened wage offer put forward by Brazil’s state-led oil...
October 9, 2012
Brazil Unemployment, Wages Fall in April
Unemployment in April fell for the first time since December 2011 to percent percent, figures by the IBGE have shown....
May 29, 2012
Brazil Oil and Gas Salaries Up 28%: Daily
The average salary of workers in Brazil’s oil and gas industry rose 27.6 percent to R$215,000 (US$106,000) per year, between...
May 21, 2012