Brazil approves a 40-hour week and two days off ten days before the runoff
Brazil’s Senate approved reducing the maximum workweek to 40 hours without a pay cut and adding a second day off for formal-sector workers. The source says the reform benefits about 37 million people and was approved ten days before the presidential runoff.
Illustrative image: Central-eastern Brazil, by Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite. Here we can see a large, flat plateau blanked with fields benefiting from rich soils and an apparent abundance of water, before falling off into a green, hilly valley (left). The straight lines in the image are roads, such as the highway running in a nearly straight line from the centre-top to bottom of the image. The area is particularly known for soybean production. The country’s soybean output has increased by more than 3000% since — ESA / Copernicus Sentinel-2A/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo
