Source: Maxpress - SP - INDUSTRY - 10/09/2009

The president of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Armando Monteiro Neto, proposed “a thorough review” of labor legislation, which he classified as anachronistic. He defended the approval, as a matter of urgency, of the bill that regulates outsourcing, which is being processed by the Chamber of Deputies.

At the opening of the Seminar on Scenarios and Trends in Labor Legislation, in the CNI auditorium, this Thursday, September 10, he highlighted that outsourcing is a new division of labor that is here to stay. “Through it, each party performs what it does best, with more specialization, greater punctuality and less cost,” he added.

The CNI president again criticized the Constitutional Amendment Proposal, which reduces the workload from 44 to 40 hours a week and increases overtime pay from 50% to 75% over the hour worked. “It is not possible to create jobs by law. Job creation depends on investments, good quality education, adequate labor laws and economic growth ”, he declared.

Monteiro Neto cited as examples of the anachronism of the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws), “designed to protect workers from a closed and predominantly agricultural economy”, as he underlined, the immense labor litigation and the informality of half of Brazilian workers.

“The world of work has changed a lot in the last few decades. Confrontation has on a large scale been replaced by cooperation in developed countries and that is what we should look at. Brazil still lives the conflict paradigm and we have to overcome this stage ”, he pointed out. He stressed that "the antagonism between capital and work does not contribute to the improvement of the work environment and, therefore, we need harmonious, cooperative relations, in a game where everyone wins, worker and company".

For the president of CNI, “creating jobs cannot be a high-risk activity”. According to him, "in the field of work there are incomprehensible laws, implacable rules and contradictory decisions, often with retroactive effect, problems that we have to overcome".

“New forms of work must be guided by the indispensable framework of legal certainty. This is absolutely essential for investments. Nobody invests in uncertainty, nobody creates jobs without security. Legal insecurity is as serious as cost overruns, destroying competitiveness and inhibiting decision making. A country that does not decide is a country that does not move forward, ”said Monteiro Neto.