The Lula Government (PT), through the Ministry of Social Security, informed last Monday, 6th, that it should study a proposal for the regulation of workers by transport and delivery application with the aim of including these drivers in the National Institute of Insurance Social (INSS).
The precariousness of work, with the growth of transport and delivery applications, has occurred in several places in the world, and new labor laws have emerged to try to embrace this new form of relationship between companies and workers.
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To accompany this movement, the Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi, announced that a working group, composed of representatives of the Ministries of Finance, Social Security and Labor will be created with the aim of proposing benefits for workers per app.
Today, according to the ministry's estimate, approximately 2 million citizens work in delivery applications.
For Minister Carlos Lupi, inclusion of drivers in the INSS can increase revenue
“Regular work through applications also means more revenue for Social Security. If this is extended to other applications, we will have an increase in revenue”, says Minister Carlos Lupi.
He also points out that less than 10% of workers in this category contribute to Social Security as self-employed or individual microentrepreneur, because of this, the government reinforces the importance of regulating the work of drivers and delivery people application.
Currently, INSS insured persons are employees, independent workers, domestic servants, individual taxpayers, special and optional insured persons. There are no labor regulations for truck drivers. application.
Another ministry also defends the inclusion of drivers in the INSS
In January of this year, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Carlos Marinho, when reporting the exhausting and without benefits for app workers, compared the service of these professionals to that of slaves.
Publicly, he defends a reform that considers the working conditions of app drivers.
As so far there is no labor regulation for application drivers, so that workers have access to benefits such as sickness allowance and maternity allowance, it is necessary that they contribute through individual microentrepreneurs (MEI) or autonomously.
