Lula will sign an equal pay bill in Brazil

The move is an election promise that won the support of then-candidate and now Planning Minister Simon Tebbit, who backed the Labor founder in the race for power.

“Finally, Simone Tippett, now, on Women’s Day, we will finally introduce the law that will ensure that women, once and for all, get the same salary as men if they do the same job,” Lula said on February 28. Directing speech to a lawyer by profession.

The talks took place at a relocation event for the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security and the Interministerial Chamber for Food and Nutrition Security at Planalto Palace, headquarters of the executive branch.

After the announcement, Tippett, who attended the event, gave the mechanical wrench a standing ovation.

«Every time you go to look for this law, it seems that it is there, but there are so many nuances that everything is done so that women do not have the right. That is, it is necessary to enact a law according to which a woman should receive the same salary as a man if she performs the same job. And that’s it, he has no coma.

“It’s compulsory: if you don’t pay, you’ll have to have someone to monitor,” the Department of Labor and Employment quoted its minister, Luis Marinho, as saying.

For a lawyer by profession, the labor reform, approved in 2018, introduced a device that fines companies that pay different salaries to men and women who perform the same job.

However, according to the teacher, the fine is so small that it leads to stimulating inequality.

“The law is the first step, but we know that discrimination is cultural, structural, and then, in the medium term, even with public policies,” he said.

He stressed that with the disclosure of the media, “we will be able to achieve that equality in wages, which is the basis for women enjoying equal rights,” he said.

According to Marinho, who confirmed Lula’s announcement on Wednesday, women currently suffer from inequality in pay and lack of opportunities.

“Our mission is to eliminate all forms of prejudice, be it racial, religious or the difference between men and women,” he noted.

And he admitted that his portfolio was still in transition “among the ruins of the disaster we suffered in Brazil,” in a slanted reference to the government of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro.

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