Brazil moves toward five-day workweek
Brazil's Chamber of Deputies advanced a reform on Wednesday that would shorten the workweek and give workers two days of rest, a pre-election victory for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Latin America's biggest economy currently has workers hustling six days a week.
Backed by labor unions and opposed by trade organizations, the draft constitutional reform now heads to a vote in the Senate to reduce the workweek from 44 to 40 hours, without pay cuts.
"The people will work five days and be able to rest for two," Lula said Tuesday at an event in the northern state of Amazonas.
