Brazil’s government is promising to overhaul its laws on outsourcing after the removal of Dilma Rousseff in August 2016. Currently outsourcing is restricted and rejected by labour courts as only ‘non-essential’ jobs can legally be outsourced. The Minister of Labour hopes to get the reformed employment laws to congress by December. The previous reform took ten years to pass through to the senate where it was rejected, so some pessimism remains on the delivery of reform.

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