Brazil’s Unemployment Rate Falls Again in October
Despite increasing inflation and slow economy, unemployment rate continues to decline.
November 19, 2014Topic
Wages
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
Middle Class Growth in Brazil: Daily
In 2011 Brazil’s middle class was the biggest of all five of the country’s ‘official’ classes, comprising 54 percent of...
March 23, 2012
Brazil May Face National Teacher Strike
Public school teachers in the Federal District (DF) went on strike on Monday as fore-warning of a national teachers strike...
March 13, 2012
Salvador Suffers with Police on Strike: Daily
A wave of violence has surged through the streets of Salvador since military police went on strike last Wednesday in...
February 4, 2012
Police Threaten Strike Before Carnival
Rio’s police and firefighters are threatening to go on strike during the Carnival if demands over increased wages and better...
January 31, 2012