Minimum Wages in Brazil with effect from 01-01-2014

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• Column I - Months
• Column II - Nominal Minimum Wage: the minimum wage valid, set by law
• Column III -  Minimum Wage Required (Living Wage) is calculated monthly by DIEESE, taking in account a constitutional precept that says: “ the minimum wage, set by law, nationally unified, must be able to supply the basic living needs of a worker and his (or her) family with housing, food, education, health, leisure, clothing, hygiene, transportation and social security, readjusted periodically, in order to preserve the purchasing power” Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Chapter II, Social rights, Article 7, section IV). 
• The family considered has two adults and two children, that consume as an adult.

 2. Minimum wages are calculated on an hourly, weekly and monthly basis. The basis of minimum wage per hour applies to the workers who work less than eight hours or less than forty four hours weekly, in part-time. To the domestic workers, the minimum wage is calculated by the hours worked. In this case, the minimum wage/per month of R$ 724,00 (BRL) is divided by the hours per month of 220 hours in order to obtain the salary/hour of R$ 3,29 (BRL). The Consolidation of Labour Laws provided the minimum wage per hour to the  lowest-apprentice workers for a maximum workweek of 30 hours, in part-time (Salário mínimo especial - Regime Geral de Previdência Social (RGPS) - Portal Brasil, Federal Goverment - Art. 428 of the CLT).  The minimum wage, determined by the Law 12.382/2011 is related with a monthly value uprating annually in base of accumulated inflation rate of last year according to National Consumer Price Index (INPC - Índice Nacional de Preço ao Consumidor-IBGE) more net gain in accordance with the variation of the penultimate year in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the penultimate year (Ministry of Labour and Employment). The annual promotion of the uprating of minimum wage provides the month, day and hour values. 

3. The minimum wage is fixed in full-time in 8 hours per day of working or 44 weekly hours. Can be reduced to part-time workers (Portal Brasil, Federal Goverment).

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