August 18, 2020

Opinion on Decree 10.422/20 - Extension of deadlines for agreements on proportional reduction of working hours and salary and temporary contractual suspension

This newsletter provides clarification on the provisions of Decree 10.422/20 that regulated Law 14.020/20 (former MP 936/20), establishing deadlines for working hours reduction agreements and temporary contractual suspension. I. PROPORTIONAL REDUCTION OF DAY AND SALARY Article 7 of...

August 13, 2020

Published rule that regulates the transaction of tax credits determined by the Simples Nacional regime

Given the wishes of micro and small businesses opting for the Unified Special Regime for Collection of Taxes and Contributions (Simples Nacional), Complementary Law nº 174/2020 was published on August 6th, which authorizes the extinction of medium tax credits ...

August 6, 2020

INPI recognizes the term “Helles” as a beer style

In recent months, many companies in the beer market, especially micro-craft breweries, have been the target of several extrajudicial orders to refrain from using the expression “HELLES” – a style of light beer, traditional from the Bavarian region in Germany – under the argument of what a...

August 5, 2020

The expiry of Provisional Measure 927/2020, which made agreements between companies and employees more flexible during the pandemic period

On Sunday, the 19/07/2020th, the expiration date of Provisional Measure 927/2020, which relaxed a series of labor rules, where companies could negotiate directly with their employees, without trade union intermediation during the coronavirus pandemic . Under the Constitution...

April 1, 2020

In times of a global pandemic, the fallacy that the State should indemnify the costs of the employment relationship

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, better known as coronavirus, as well as respecting Legislative Decree nº 6, of March 20, 2020, which declared a state of public calamity throughout the country, states and municipalities published measures to prevent crowd of people...

April 1, 2020

The strength of the Judiciary in times of COVID-19

It is not intended to reject or minimize the pandemic scenario that we are enduring on a global scale, especially regarding social, legislative and economic uncertainties. After all, the decree of social isolation (indefinitely since it is not effectively known when the...

March 17, 2020

How the employer must act to preserve the health of employees without violating rights

Em razão da extrema gravidade da situação que envolve a propagação do coronavírus e os riscos que esta espécie de gripe traz à saúde da população, o Governo Federal publicou, em caráter emergencial, a Lei 13.979/20, que “Dispõe sobre as medidas para enfrentamento da emergência de sa�...

March 9, 2020

Green and Yellow Employment Contract: waiting for the National Congress

Since the Federal Government published Provisional Measure 905, on November 12, 2019, much has been discussed about the changes produced in the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) and due to the so-called Green and Yellow Labor Contract. It generated so many doubts with this new modality...

March 6, 2020

Brief comments on the new Franchise Law

The new Franchise Law (Law 13,966/2019) comes into force on March 26, curiously, 26 years after the appearance of the first legal framework for this business niche, the extinct Law 8,955, enacted on December 15, 1994, in the light of the Itamar Franco government. Some of the mod...

March 5, 2020

Judicial exclusion of the majority partner at the initiative of the majority of minority partners

The Brazilian legal system establishes that the acquisition of legal personality by companies takes place with the registration of their constitutive act in the respective registry. However, such a moment only externalizes the preexisting spirit of the partners to be together for the constitution of a s...

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