(ANSA) - Sao Paulo, December 27 - Two years after it came
into force, labour reform in Brazil has brought a series of
changes in the routines of Brazilian companies and the relations
between employer and employee, with a direct impact on the
management of the work day.
"In effect, one of the most complex changes has been making
the work schedule more flexible: the update to the accords on
monitoring working hours, on the basis of the new possibilities
of the working day, added to the updating of systems, ensures a
greater security in the control and verification of work days",
Fabio Gonçalves, human resources chief of Luandre, one of the
main consultancy firms for staff management in the city of Sao
Paulo, told ANSA.
The labour market reform, launched during the administration
of President Michel Temer at the end of 2017, via law 13,467,
has made sector legislation more flexible. One of the main
changes introduced has been the possibility of negotiating with
every employee their working day and compensation for overtime,
as well as the regulation of home-office work.
Currently, firms use manual clocking-in, the electronic
monitoring of work schedules - with the possibility of using
passwords, badges or biometric controls, as well as the
registration of the schedules of computers, tablets or
cellphones, with facial recognition and geolocation.
"All these changes introduced by the labour reform and
subsequent legislation have enabled the adoption of the
electronic register. On the basis of law 13,874, firms which
have more than 20 employees can use electronic mechanisms, like
cellular phones, to clock in," explained Ivandick Cruzelles,
legal consultant and professor of labour rights at Mackenzie
University.
Nevertheless, with the change in the law, it is also possible
to establish, on the basis of collective bargaining, other forms
of controlling working time, such as for example monitoring by
exception: in this case, you presume that the employee is
carrying out their normal schedule, and only has to clock in for
overtime.
For the Mackenzie legal expert, there exists in Brazil the
need to invest in the control of the working day above all
because "the big problem of working-day justice in Brazil, is
often not that the employer does not compensate the work done by
the employee, but that he does not even register that which he
is entitled to", via the monitoring of the work day.
On the basis of the so-called Consolidation of Labour Laws
(CLT), firms with more than 10 employees must guarantee the
control of the work day, with a manual or electronic system.
Furthermore, as is highlighted by the human resources chief
of Luandre, the new technologies help to prevent clock-in fraud.
"The assertiveness of the data and the shortening of the time
needed to determine the information make the difference in the
final process", stressed Goncalves, adding that among the
advantages of having an effective control of working time are
also clarity in payments and employee satisfaction.
ID Control, which produces control mechanisms such as
revolving doors, turnstiles, as well as biometric solutions, is
one of the firms that has launched new ideas to improve the
management of the working day. Recently, the company created two
new products: iDAccess Pro and iDAccess Nano, which are
biometric systems for monitoring access, using proximity and
passwords.
According to Diego Rodrigues, head of Control ID's access
control products, "the advantage of this system is the quantity
of digital fingerprints. Today we have a product that guarantees
the identification of up to 100,000 fingerprints, with a
differentiated processor of 1.2 GHz, or a quad-core. This
produces huge speed in identification".
The system, created to monitor and control the entry and exit
of people into company premises, like many other novelties, may
be discovered next year, from 14-16 April, at the 23rd edition
of Exposec, the largest electronic security fair in Latin
America, in Sao Paulo. Organized by Cipa Fiera Milano, the event
brings together the latest technologies, products and services
in the sector.
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