BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former president and presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) once again defended, on Wednesday, the regulation of work through apps, such as Ifood and Uber, and said that workers need to have some social safety net.
“What we are proposing is to establish a rule as was established in Spain recently, which was made by mutual agreement. People who work with applications have practically no rights. We need to make a regulation”, defended the former president at a press conference.
Lula also said that, if elected, he intends to encourage micro and small entrepreneurs who do not want to work with a formal contract, and also cooperatives, for which he plans to use public banks to offer financing.
The issue of job regulation by application is one of the measures that the PT has been working on when dealing with changes in the labor reform approved during Michel Temer’s government. Lula has insisted that the party does not want a return to the CLT rules of the 1940s, but says it is necessary to guarantee basic rights to workers, such as vacations, paid weekly rest and a guarantee in case of accidents or illness.
The subject was one of the topics addressed by Lula in the interview with the Flow podcast, on Tuesday night.
“These people who work with apps, these guys need to have a regulation, they have to have a working day, they have to have paid weekly rest, they have to have some right, because they invented that they are entrepreneurs, but they are not entrepreneurs . If the guy crashes the car and breaks down, he’s screwed, if he gets hurt, he’s screwed. So we need to make a regulation in which we guarantee people a minimum of social security”, said PT on the podcast.
The speech reverberated on social networks and attracted criticism from opponents, who pointed to the possibility of ending the applications. Lula’s supporters, however, countered by extolling the defense of workers’ rights.
(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu)
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