Overview

• The plenary session on Oct. 1 is devoted to reports and oral arguments, with the votes to be read in a subsequent sitting.
• The court is reviewing an Uber appeal (RE 1446336, with general repercussion) and a Rappi complaint (RCL 64018), under relators Edson Fachin and Alexandre de Moraes.
• Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet urged the court not to recognize employment ties, invoking free enterprise and prior STF precedents against applying CLT rules to app-based work.
• Labor courts and some TST panels have recognized employment based on habituality and algorithmic control, which conflicts with earlier STF decisions and has fueled legal uncertainty.
• The ruling will set a nationwide standard for more than 10,000 cases and could reshape costs, worker protections and platform models affecting an estimated 2.1 million app workers.