Medida provisória n. 905/2019 Programa Verde Amarelo: a reforma dentro da reforma trabalhista

Abstract

On November 12th, 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued provisional decree n. 905/2019 (PD 905/2019), which establishes the 'green and yellow employment contract' and promotes other changes in the Brazilian labor legislation (Brasil, 2019). The goal of the decree, as explained in its abstract, is to create jobs for workers aged between 18 and 29 years old. This goal would supposedly be reached through a more precarious contractual figure, established by a fixed deadline and with severe restrictions of rights, with the possibility of encompassing contracts made until 2022. With PD 905/2019, the Executive branch of the government, besides changing the specific situation of the citizens targeted by the new form of contract, also promoted a series of alterations in the labor and social security laws. These changes represent a new stage of the labor reform that began in 2017, and, among them, we can highlight especially the incidence of social security taxes on unemployment relief, as well as the establishment of Saturdays as workdays for bank employees and of Sundays for all categories of workers, and objective and procedural limitations to the work of the labor inspectorate and the Public Ministry of Labor.