Government-Announced Bill Proposes Changes to the Young Apprentice Program and Is Rejected by Lawmakers

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Published on 11/05/2022 at 11:26

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Chamber Plans to Block Changes Proposed by the Government, as the MP Is Interpreted as Harmful to the Young Apprentice

In MP 1.116, published last Wednesday (day 4), the government proposed a series of changes to the Young Apprentice Program. In this context, the deputies of the Special Commission of the Apprentice Statute will try to block such changes in order to highlight the changes that were already being discussed in the project, which has one of its authors being the President of the Chamber himself, Arthur Lira (Progressistas-AL).

According to information from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, since January, the government has been considering significant changes to the Young Apprentice program, created in 2000. It then took advantage of an MP that releases funds from the Guarantee Fund for Length of Service (FGTS) for the payment of daycares and qualification expenses to relax the rules regarding apprentice quotas.

According to the Apprentice Law, companies deemed medium or large must reserve vacancies for adolescents and young people aged 14 to 24 years, and if the apprentice has a disability, there is no maximum age limit. The quota for vacancies is at least 5% of the total number of employees in the company and at most 15% of them.

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Changes Specified in the MP Benefit Only Companies and Reduce the Number of Hired Apprentices

Among the modifications to the Young Apprentice – a program that has opportunities at Azul Linhas Aéreas – outlined in the MP, is the permission for apprentices already hired permanently to remain artificially entering the calculation of quotas for up to 12 months. Furthermore, young people in situations of social vulnerability will be counted twice, and contracts will have double the current duration, that is, they will be valid for up to four years.

Thus, the MP proposed by the government could reduce the number of hired apprentices, as it creates a loophole for companies to meet the quotas.

Deputy Marco Bertaiolli (PSD-SP), president of the Finance and Taxation Commission (CFT) and rapporteur of the Special Commission of the Apprentice Statute, has already expressed his commitment to present amendments aimed at removing all changes to the Young Apprentice Program from the MP. According to Bertaiolli, the Chamber has been working hard since last year to hear all agents of apprenticeship, so it does not seem coherent to him that the government included issues related to the Young Apprentice in the MP while Parliament was already studying the topic.

Entities Criticize the Government’s Measure and Mobilize to Prevent Changes to the Young Apprentice Program

Entities associated with youth apprenticeship, such as the Brazilian Federation of Socio-Educational Associations of Adolescents (Fefraeda), are already encouraging and motivating parliamentarians to remove from the MP the articles that modify the Young Apprentice Program. According to the superintendent of Febraeda, Antonio Roberto Fasin, the changes will not be accepted in any way, given that, under the false pretext of expanding hiring, they ultimately reduce the quota. Fasin adds that the act of counting vulnerable individuals twice is not only discriminatory but also unconstitutional.

The national superintendent of Operations and Customer Service at the Company-School Integration Center (CIEE), Mônica Castro, declared that companies are already seeking the institution to cancel vacancies from the program based on the MP published this week. For Mônica, the government’s action aims to reduce quotas and end the Young Apprentice Program, making it completely nonsensical to impose these changes through a provisional measure.

She also criticized another aspect of the MP, which concerns the hiring of apprentices up to 29 years old in unhealthy activities that do not allow hiring individuals under 21, asserting that there is clearly a precarization of labor.

Government-Announced Bill Proposes Changes to the Young Apprentice Program and Is Rejected by Lawmakers

Chamber Plans to Block Changes Proposed by the Government, as the MP Is Interpreted as Harmful to the Young Apprentice

Changes Specified in the MP Benefit Only Companies and Reduce the Number of Hired Apprentices

Entities Criticize the Government’s Measure and Mobilize to Prevent Changes to the Young Apprentice Program

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Changes Specified in the MP Benefit Only Companies and Reduce the Number of Hired Apprentices

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