Overview
- On Saturday, November 14, Minister Luiz Fux removed the case from the virtual docket and sent it to the STF’s plenary physical, which cancels the votes recorded online but does not suspend Minister Flávio Dino’s liminar.
- Dino’s liminar preserves the 16 December 2026 start of the 5x2 regime, sets an interim 42-hour week that may be spread over five days with up to 8 hours 24 minutes per day, and allows the 24 extra minutes to avoid overtime treatment through 15 December 2027.
- The liminar also creates a 90-day window for unions and employers to renegotiate collective agreements and a 180-day deadline for public-contract adaptations and sectoral rules, with Congress asked to set longer-term discipline.
- The Chamber and the Senate have formally asked the STF to reject parts of Dino’s flexibilizations while employer confederations (CNC and CNI) press their ADIs seeking changes or delays to implementation.
- Reports say the federal government plans a decree to fix hourly-pay divisors and other technical rules to preserve monthly pay levels, a move that could change payroll calculations, overtime costs and bargaining positions for companies and workers.