Os trabalhadores domésticos são um grupo bem importante no mercado laboral, especialmente para Ásia e América Latina. Este grupo de trabalhadores inclui governantas, cozinheiros, babás, faxineiros, motoristas particulares e jardineiros, entre outros. Vários países em desenvolvimento apresentam uma histórica ausência de reconhecimento formal a estes trabalhadores, contribuindo ao estabelecimento de horários de trabalho não regulamentados, carência de salários justos e de proteção social. Mais a partir de Março 2013 a situação vai a mudar com a aprovação e efetividade da emenda constitucional que assegura aos domésticos direitos iguais aos demais trabalhadores. Alguns dos direitos estabelecidos para os trabalhadores domésticos incluem: jornada de trabalho de 44 horas semanais, com limite de oito horas diárias, pagamento de horas extras e o reconhecimento dos acordos coletivos de trabalho. Leia mais ou discutir.
Domestic workers — maids, cooks, baby sitters, gardeners, drivers, and so on — are a very important group within the labor market, especially in Asia and Latin America. However, domestic workers traditionally lack formal recognition, meaning that they have non-regulated working hours and lack proper compensation and access to social protection. With the constitutional amendment of March 2013, this situation has begun to change: the law requires minimum working conditions for domestic workers, putting them on a par with other salaried workers. The new rights include a regulated workload with a maximum of 8 hours a day or 44 hours a week, paid overtime, and the recognition of labor unions to ensure collective rights. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 06/03/2013 – 00:00
Domestic workers — maids, cooks, baby sitters, gardeners, drivers, and so on — are a very important group within the labor market, especially in Asia and Latin America. However, domestic workers traditionally lack formal recognition, meaning that they have non-regulated working hours and lack proper compensation and access to social protection. With the constitutional amendment of March 2013, this situation has begun to change: the law requires minimum working conditions for domestic workers, putting them on a par with other salaried workers. The new rights include a regulated workload with a maximum of 8 hours a day or 44 hours a week, paid overtime, and the recognition of labor unions to ensure collective rights. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 06/03/2013 – 00:00
Good and nutritious food is accessible to all of Rio’s residents, no matter where they live. At least this is the message from Sérgio Bloch, Ines Garçoni and Marcos Pinto, the authors of the new “Guia Gastronômico das Favelas do Rio”, or “The Gastronomic Guide to Rio’s Favelas”, the first of its kind. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 05/20/2013 – 00:00
Comida gostosa e nutritiva está ao alcance de todos os moradores de Rio, sem importar onde eles moram. Este parece ser a mensagem de Sérgio Bloch, Ines Garçoni e Marcos Pinto, os autores do “Guia Gastronômico das Favelas do Rio”, que foi lançado o mês passado. Leia mais ou discutir.
Good and nutritious food is accessible to all of Rio’s residents, no matter where they live. At least this is the message from Sérgio Bloch, Ines Garçoni and Marcos Pinto, the authors of the new “Guia Gastronômico das Favelas do Rio”, or “The Gastronomic Guide to Rio’s Favelas”, the first of its kind. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 05/20/2013 – 00:00
Planning the medium and long-term development of a city is not an easy task — it requires a clear framework and effective tools. In order to understand how planning takes place in Rio de Janeiro, it is important to look at the highlights of the Brazilian planning framework, and then how it is implemented at the city level. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 05/06/2013 – 00:00
Planejar o desenvolvimento urbano das cidades no médio e longo prazo é um grande desafio. Para compreender melhor o processo de planejamento urbano no Rio de Janeiro, é importante descrever o marco do planejamento no Brasil para logo compreender melhor sua implementação ao nível da cidade. Leia mais ou discutir.
Planning the medium and long-term development of a city is not an easy task — it requires a clear framework and effective tools. In order to understand how planning takes place in Rio de Janeiro, it is important to look at the highlights of the Brazilian planning framework, and then how it is implemented at the city level. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 05/06/2013 – 00:00
Neste mapa do Rio de Janeiro, os bairros de baixa renda estão identificados em laranja, facilitando nossa compreensão sobre sua localização. Aquele mapa também nos permite aprender que estes bairros não estão localizados numa única área, mais que eles estão distribuídos pela cidade toda, desde o centro até a periferia, com concentrações na zona norte e oeste. Segundo o último censo nos sabemos que aqueles “pontos laranja” são residência de 20 por cento da população da cidade ou 1,2 milhões de pessoas. Leia mais ou discutir.
In this map of Rio de Janeiro, low-income neighborhoods are identified in orange, providing an easy understanding of their physical distribution. This map also shows that low-income neighborhoods are not located in a particular area of the city, but are spread out from the center to the outskirts, although with higher concentrations in the northern and western areas. The latest census shows that these “orange spots” are home to 1.2 million residents, which is equivalent to 20 percent of Rio’s population. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 04/29/2013 – 00:00
In this map of Rio de Janeiro, low-income neighborhoods are identified in orange, providing an easy understanding of their physical distribution. This map also shows that low-income neighborhoods are not located in a particular area of the city, but are spread out from the center to the outskirts, although with higher concentrations in the northern and western areas. The latest census shows that these “orange spots” are home to 1.2 million residents, which is equivalent to 20 percent of Rio’s population. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Wed, 04/24/2013 – 12:13
In Rio de Janeiro, there is no specific group that can be clearly classified as the “new urban poor.” There is no single large group of recently arrived migrants that have become the poorest of Rio’s groups. However, there is a special group that deserves our attention: the migrants from Brazil’s Northeast region, who migrated to Rio six decades ago, but are still one of Rio’s poorest and most excluded populations. Their migration took place between the late 1940s and the 1970s, when a large number of agriculturalists from the northeast migrated to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in search of better paying jobs in civil construction. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 04/22/2013 – 00:00
No Rio de Janeiro existe um grupo populacional que merece uma atenção especial: Os migrantes nordestinos e seus descendentes, que com mais de sessenta anos no Rio continuam como uma das populações mais pobres e excluídas da cidade. A migração de nordestinos para São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro aconteceu entre as décadas de 1940 e 1970, onde um número importante de agricultores nordestinos passou a migrar para aquelas cidades em busca de melhores oportunidades de trabalho na construção civil. Leia mais ou discutir.
In Rio de Janeiro, there is no specific group that can be clearly classified as the “new urban poor.” There is no single large group of recently arrived migrants that have become the poorest of Rio’s groups. However, there is a special group that deserves our attention: the migrants from Brazil’s Northeast region, who migrated to Rio six decades ago, but are still one of Rio’s poorest and most excluded populations. Their migration took place between the late 1940s and the 1970s, when a large number of agriculturalists from the northeast migrated to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in search of better paying jobs in civil construction. Read more or join the discussion.
Submitted by Catalina Gomez — Mon, 04/22/2013 – 00:00