In an interview with Automotive Business, Luara Rezende, head of our labor department, commented on the labor situation of Uber drivers.
The platform became an issue between the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, after being condemned by the Labor Court for R$1 billion in collective moral damages. The governments consider that app drivers have an employment relationship with these companies and therefore have labor rights.
Luara Rezende explains that because it is a different form of service provision, the group requires specific regulation, which is not adequate in our current legislation. The lawyer comments that for the group, the ideal would be to evaluate the best practices that already exist in the law, such as the “Driver’s Law”.
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