On 26th December 2019, Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, enacted Law No. 13.966/19, the new Franchise Law, which revokes and replaces the former 1994 francise law (Law No. 8.955/94). The new law updates terminology and concepts, inserts certain new mandatory...
On 27th November 2019, the National Immigration Council, an agency linked to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, published Normative Resolution No. 40/2019 regulating the issuance of residence permits based on retirement and/or pension. Such residence permit...
In order to update the Labour Health and Safety Regulations (NRs) and increase productivity and competitiveness of Brazilian companies while also protecting employees, on 30th July 2019, Portarias 915 and 916 of the Special Labour and Public Pension System Secretariat...
On August 2019 the 4th Panel of the Brazilian Superior Labour Court (TST) dismissed the claim brought by a store assistant to have his intermittent employment agreement with a retail chain being declared “as an employment agreement for an indefinite term”,...
Two recent decisions issued by Brazilian labour courts have reviewed the legality of poker cash games. The Regional Labour Court of Appeals of the 18th Region (Goiás), when reviewing labour claim No. 0011220-49.2017.5.18.0009, considered the employment...
On 25th July 2019, Ordinance No. 666 was published in the Official Gazette of the Union, which provides for the impediment of entry, repatriation and summary deportation of a dangerous person or whoever has committed an act contrary to the principles and purposes set...
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