Brazil needs new labor regulations to provide more social protection to app workers, such as delivery people, drivers and other healthcare professionals. gig economy, without them having to give up the flexibility of working hourly or on demand.
This is one of the main arguments that Fabricio Bloisi, president of iFood, defends in an interview to Folha de S.Paulo, published on December 3rd. “This dialectic of 'you have social rights or you don't' doesn't exist in our minds”, says the executive. “We need a law that guarantees social protection, security Social, earnings minimums, but that works in a more flexible model.”
Fabricio considers that the CLT (Consolidation of Labor Laws) was an advance when it was written, but that labor legislation needs to keep up with the new work models that digital platforms like iFood allows today. Hence the need for new labor regulations.
“We need laws that allow Brazil to continue generating job opportunities, but connected to where we are going. As for putting more energy into social rights, we think that’s great,” he said in the interview.
In the conversation, the president of iFood also spoke about the technologies that will shape our future, competition in the Brazilian delivery market and his vision for the benefits sector. In the video below, you can see a summary of what happened.
