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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by diegoholiveira on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @09:56AM (#17959712)
But I'm not talking about wages. I'm talking about other rigths that an employee has, for example: if you bankrupt and need to fire you employees, you'll be forced to pay a fine of 40% of the FGTS (FGTS it's like a saving account the company is obligated to pay in name of they employees).
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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by rescbr on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:53PM (#17961863)
Speaking as a fellow Brazilian: so account for it beforehand, in the same way you should account for 13th salaries and other "hidden" worker rights, which are liabilities in the accounting sense.
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Re:Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosy... by kikoreis on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:01PM (#17962817)
Yeah, that's how we have always hired, and I don't see a big problem with CLT (the Brazilian employment law), perhaps with the exception of how vacation time and union membership is handled.

It's bizarre that the threads on this post seem to straddle "founders are only in it to make money off the back of their employees" and "worker's rights and compensation are onerous" simultaneously.

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