Not all businesses will need to negotiate with unions to open during holidays. Although the new rules, announced this Tuesday (21) by the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE), will require a collective agreement for the operation of part of the trade on these dates, some activities will continue to be authorized to operate without an agreement between employers and workers. ?? Do you have any reporting suggestions? Send it to g1 This is the case of pharmacies, gas stations, restaurants, bars and hotels, which are among the sectors with permanent authorization to operate on holidays. ?? For other establishments, the rule determines that work on these dates must be provided for in a collective agreement signed between the employer's union and the union that represents workers in the category. In practice, the employer's unilateral decision is no longer sufficient to authorize the opening of businesses on public holidays. The requirement, however, does not apply to the following activities: selling bread and cookies; pharmaceutical retailers, including compounding pharmacies; flowers and crowns; barbershops and beauty salons; warehouses for fuel, lubricants and car accessories (fuel stations); retail trade of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); bicycle and similar rental companies; hotels, restaurants, bars and similar; entertainment venues, including sporting establishments with admission fees; street markets; doormen and doormen in residential buildings; tourism agencies, vehicle and boat rental companies; trade at fairs and exhibitions; hospital laundries and laundries; establishments providing funeral services. Work on holidays in commerce: see what changes and the affected sectors Reproduction/EPTV According to the MTE, the ordinance reestablishes a requirement set out in Law No. 10,101, which deals with work on commemorative dates in commerce. With the change, issues such as work schedules, compensatory days off, additional payments and other compensations can be negotiated between representatives of workers and employers. The measure also makes it clear that the new rules only apply to holidays. ?? Work on Sundays continues to be authorized by the rules already set out in legislation and has not changed. During a meeting held this Tuesday (21) with representatives of workers and employers, the Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho, stated that he hoped that negotiations would take place in a balanced manner between the parties. "What we hope is that the union leaders, workers and employers will have maturity around a table (...) so that you can find solutions, often, to problems that seemed to have no solution. And, the more we talk, we can get closer to this possibility", stated the Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho. Representative of the business sector, Ivo Dall’Acqua Júnior, president of Fecomércio São Paulo and director of the National Confederation of Goods, Services and Tourism (CNC), stated that the agreement closes a stage of negotiation, but that the debate must continue. "The discussion doesn't stop here. We are absolutely aware of this, especially because new forms, new mechanisms and new tools have been incorporated into the world of work. So, I believe that today we are celebrating a very well discussed agreement, but the discussion does not stop there. Our dialogue must be permanent." Operation of commerce on holidays will depend on authorization provided for in the Collective Agreement g1/ Júlia Christine