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PJ Contracting: Risks for Companies
Contracting through a legal entity can be lawful, but it requires caution. Understand the main risks of PJ contracting for companies and how to reduce employment-law exposure.
Read article →China Desk / Corporate Employment LawHow a Foreign Company Can Hire in Brazil
Foreign companies planning to hire in Brazil should assess corporate structure, employment relationships, independent contractors (PJ), expatriates, and local obligations.
Read article →ContractsBusiness contracts: clauses that reduce risk
Well-drafted business contracts reduce uncertainty, organize responsibilities, and help prevent disputes. See essential clauses.
Read article →China Desk / CorporateChinese investment in Brazil: initial legal precautions
Chinese investors intending to operate in Brazil should attend to corporate structuring, contracts, foreign exchange, compliance, labor and local representation.
Read article →Corporate / Foreign clientsForeign shareholder in a Brazilian company
A foreign individual or entity may hold an interest in a Brazilian company, but must comply with documentation, local representation, registration, and governance rules.
Read article →Corporate Labor LawIs There a Time Limit to Enforce a Labor Credit Certificate?
Old enforcement proceedings, shelved for more than a decade, are being revived through credit certificates — often against the company's partners. Understand the five-year statute of limitations that may extinguish such a claim.
Read article →Corporate labor lawEmployee registration: the 5 days and the risk of a notice of violation
Many companies believe they have 5 days to register an employee. During a labor inspection, that deadline may not protect them. Understand the risk of a notice of violation and how to prevent it.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawLabor liabilities and the partner's retirement: how far the debt can reach
A Brazilian Superior Labor Court decision allowed a business owner's retirement benefits to be seized to pay a labor debt. Understand why the liability can reach the partner's personal assets — and what prevents it.
Read article →Corporate Employment Law\"Pejotização\" and the Brazilian Supreme Court's Theme 1,389: the suspension lifted and how far the cases advance
Labor courts have resumed judging \"pejotização\" cases after the Supreme Court lifted the suspension at first and second instance. Understand what is examined on the merits and how far these cases can go.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawA hidden AI command inside a court filing: why it became bad-faith litigation
Lawyers hid, in white font, a command addressed to AI inside their defense. The court's own artificial-intelligence tool detected it. Understand why this amounted to bad-faith litigation and what the case teaches about the use of AI in legal practice.
Read article →Civil & Consumer LawThe fake call-center scam: when the bank is liable (and when it is not)
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice (STJ) has clarified when banks are liable in the fake call-center scam. Liability is not automatic: it depends on whether the bank failed to detect transactions outside the customer's profile. Understand the test and what it means for institutions and consumers.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawPejotização: the jurisdiction dispute running beneath the merits
While everyone debates whether pejotização is fraud, Brazil's Supreme Court has already ruled more than 400 times on a different question: who decides. Understand why jurisdiction (ordinary courts or labor courts) often shapes the outcome, and why this is not a final word.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawGPS, check-in and Article 62, I: when managing the field team becomes proof of working hours
A Labor Court set aside Article 62, I, of the Labor Code and ordered a company to pay overtime to an external salesperson. The proof of control came from the company's own management tools: GPS, app check-in and predefined routes. Understand the paradox and what it demands from employers.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawDismissal for cause over cannabis possession: the limits of managerial power and the proportionality of the penalty
A labor court converted into a no-cause dismissal the termination for cause of an employee who carried less than a gram of cannabis, and ordered the company to pay around R$ 49,000. Understand why private conduct, with no repercussion at work, does not sustain the harshest penalty of the employment contract.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawReasonable accommodation at work: telework and reduced hours for a person with a disability
The TRT-2 upheld full telework and a 30% reduction in working hours, with no salary cut, for an employee with ASD. Understand the duty of reasonable accommodation, its limits, and how the employer should handle this kind of request.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawRetail work on public holidays: what changes with MTE Ordinance 1,316/2026
The new MTE Ordinance 1,316/2026 reorganizes the rule on retail work on public holidays. For general retail, opening depends on a collective bargaining agreement. Understand what changed, what already existed, and what the employer must do before the next holiday.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawMedical leave and dismissal for cause: when the employee's conduct breaks trust
A ruling by the 4th Labor Court of Blumenau upheld the dismissal for cause of an employee who, six days after fracturing his ankle, appeared in records of a festival. Understand what supported the decision, what medical leave suspends, and what the employer must prove before dismissing.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawForwarding corporate e-mails to a personal account: dismissal for cause and the LGPD
Brazil's 4th Region Labor Court upheld the dismissal for cause of an employee who forwarded around sixty confidential corporate e-mails to his own personal account. Understand what supported the dismissal, why the information security policy decides these cases, and where the company's liability under the LGPD comes in.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawEmployees earning as content creators: how far the employer's authority goes
A growing number of employees keep a side activity as influencers or channel owners, now accelerated by artificial intelligence tools. Understand why dismissal for cause based on habitual trading rarely holds up in these cases, which grounds can actually support a penalty, and why fatigue from side activity has become an occupational risk management issue.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawWhen an employment decision starts with AI-generated content
One in five videos served to a new YouTube user is low-quality AI-generated content, and part of it deals with legal subjects. Understand how this material reaches the HR department, which employment decisions tend to come out of it, and why responsibility remains with the company.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawChanging a work schedule from 5x2 to 6x1: why the unilateral change triggered constructive dismissal
A São Paulo labour court recognised the constructive dismissal of an employee whose schedule was changed from 5x2 to 6x1 by company decision. Understand why article 468 of the Brazilian Labor Code bars that change, which defence error made the case worse, and how a gender perspective has entered the analysis of working time changes.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawApprenticeship quota: the calculation base error that cost R$ 100,000
Brazil's 2nd Region Labor Court ordered a company to pay R$ 100,000 in collective moral damages for leaving the sales promoter role out of the apprenticeship quota calculation base. Understand which roles the law actually excludes, why the national occupational classification decides that calculation, and why hiring young people does not replace hiring apprentices.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawPlatform work in Brazil: what separates employment from genuine autonomy
Brazil's Labour Prosecution Office argued before the Supreme Court, in Theme 1,291, that platform work should be assessed case by case, with no automatic conclusion. Understand which concrete elements enter that assessment, why algorithmic subordination is the decisive point, and why ruling out an employment relationship does not end the company's obligations.
Read article →Corporate Employment LawILO Convention 193: what it actually says about platform work
A reading is circulating that ILO Convention 193 imposes employment status on platform work. Lawyers who have examined the text argue the opposite. Understand what the Convention actually provides, why it is not yet part of Brazilian law, and which obligations are already enforceable regardless of it.
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