I didn't say that an entrepreneur should not have any kind of responsibility for the employees. What I said it's that we have too many responsibilities. For example:

- We have 13º salary, with may be easy for a large company to pay, but it's expensive for a small company;

- We have FGTS, that is like a saving account paid by the company in the name of employee;

- It's very complicated to hire someone with a non-conventional work contract.

And so on. I'm not saying that we should remove labor rights, what I'm saying it's that we need to find a balance that is good to everyone: employee, small companies, large companies and so on.

The 13th salary exists in other countries too (example: Switzerland). It's a dumb thing to complain about because you have to be able to pay an employee's yearly salary in a year. It's not a surprise. It comes every December.

FGTS also has its equivalents in several forms of unemployment insurance. It's a bad thing only in how the insurance is mismanaged by the government, not because it exists at all. I guess countries that do not have unemployment insurance are rare and extremely poor?

I just found a report that claims that the cost of a employee to the company 22% over the wage, while in Brazil is 71%.

http://www.uhy.com/wp-content/uploads/UHY-study-on-employmen...

I posted something but don't have the time to double-check the math. I suggest you do your own calculations. In particular do not count income (13th salary, food tickets, travel reimbursements, etc.) as though it was taxes.

The point is that this is expensive to small companies, startups are small, with a budget that may not allow this kind of cost. To large companies, pay those things are fine.