App workers have never been more exploited, criticizes Lula

HE President Lula He criticized the applications at the ceremony held at Planalto Palace this Wednesday (Wednesday 1) with trade unionists from America. “Informal work is taking on a larger dimension than formal work, and practice companies are exploiting workers more than ever before. at another time in history workers were exploited”said.

Lula pointed out that the new working model created by the applications made it difficult to defend workers’ rights. The president argued that unions should take action to establish a new working relationship.

When he was a unionist, the general manager reminded that it was enough to go to the factory gate to talk to the workers; this would be impossible at the moment due to the decentralization of professionals’ electronic service platforms.

“Here in Brazil we have the vast majority of workers who are intermittent, temporary workers who don’t know their employers, who have no place to even complain when something misfortune happens in the worker’s life,” said the President.

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Lula’s critique comes amid the government’s attempts to propose a compromise. Legislation regulating activities related to practices. A working group was formed in January to establish new standards for work platforms. At the time, the president stated that “the situation was on the verge of slave labor.”

During the election campaign, Lula pledged to create labor legislation that would focus attention on professionals providing applications-mediated services. social protection similar to registered employees.

The Brazilian Association for Mobility and Technology (Amobitec), which represents companies like iFood, 99 and Uber, supports the initiative. Last year, the agency published a letter of principles suggesting that the integration of professionals into the social security system (INSS) with the new rules could reduce “employment opportunities and income generation.”