National Conciliation Week – Registration until May 1, 2019

By Israel Cruz With the promotion of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), the Labor Courts will hold the 5th National Labor Conciliation Week between May 27, 2019 and May 31, 2019. The registration of cases for conciliation may be done directly by the Labor Court or by the parties involved. Cases that are being processed in the Regional Court of […]

Limitation of Compensation Amounts for Moral Damages in Employment Relations

By Thatiany Silva, Fabiana Aparecida da Silva, Ronny Mendes The rupture of the tailings dam in Brumadinho (MG) reignited the discussion about the limitation of moral damages introduced through Law No. 13,467/2017 (Labor Reform), more precisely by articles 223-A to 223-G, and will be addressed in the Supreme Federal Court through Direct Actions […]

Out-of-court settlements in the Labor Court

  By Israel Cruz, Najla Mitre and Letícia Neves With the entry into force of Law 1.3467/2017, employees and employers now have a faster and more reliable device to solve their problems, since with the inclusion of item “f” of article 652 of the CLT, it will be up to the Labor Courts to “decide on the […]

Telecommunications Law Judgment

  By Israel Cruz, Paola Carvalho and Njala Mitre In a recent trial in the ARE 791932 lawsuit, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) ruled on the possibility of unrestricted outsourcing by telephone companies, a measure that recognized the violation of the plenary reservation clause by the Superior Labor Court by ruling out the applicability […]

The appeal deposit after the labor reform (Law 13,467/2017)

  By Letícia Cordeiro This text aims to address the main changes brought about by the Labor Reform regarding the appeal deposit in the Labor Court. The appeal deposit has the legal nature of a guarantee of judgment, its payment is exclusively the responsibility of the Defendant, and its value is based on the country's current minimum wage […]

New Chapter in the application of IPCA to update Labor Debts

  By Rafael Mello On August 4, 2015, the TST Plenary Court decided that the TR index “does not reflect the effective preservation of purchasing power” and determined the replacement of the TR index by the IPCA-e for updating labor debts from June 2009 onwards, excluding cases already paid off, a criterion that […]

Non-employee representative and the position of the Superior Labor Court

  By Rafael Mello – 06/22/2018 Much has been said about the intertemporal application of the new procedural rules established by 13,467/2011, with discussions revolving around the application, or not, of such procedural rules immediately to the proceedings, regardless of whether the action was filed before the aforementioned law came into effect, that is, […]