“Too much leisure is bad”: president of the Republicans criticizes PEC at the end of the 6×1 journey

The president of the Republicans, federal deputy Marcos Pereira (SP), stated that he spoke with the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB), about his concerns regarding the PEC that foresees the end of the 6×1 journey.

In an interview with Folha de S.PauloPereira argued that reducing working hours would take away the competitiveness of Brazilian companies, in addition to questioning whether the additional free time would be used in a beneficial way for society.

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“I think that the more I work, the more prosperity. Of course, you have to have leisure, but too much idleness is bad,” he said. “You will be more exposed to drugs, gambling. It could be the opposite, instead of leisure, it could be evil. What is the leisure of a poor person in a community? Or in the backlands of the Northeast?”

The party president also criticized the attempt to vote on the text in the middle of an election year, which he considers “very sensitive”, and warned that pressure on the issue could expose the Chamber. “Sometimes you even have to vote (in favor) because it’s an election year, because voters may not understand if you vote against, for example. I’m worried,” he said.

Pereira also said that the CLT, “with all its merits, has many problems” when compared to legislation from countries with full employment and a stronger economy.

“We have an abyss, and this is the complaint of the national industry about the Mercosur-EU agreement. It is not possible to compare the labor cost, the cost of bureaucracy and taxes here with there. Competition with China then, which has no labor legislation, there is nothing”, he stated.

The deputy argued that, although the demand to reduce working hours is legitimate, the measure was only successful in countries that he classified as “first world”, with “very high” GDP per capita, such as Germany, Finland, Iceland and Norway.