Basic information
Capital: Brasília
Time zone: GMT-5
Languages: Portuguese
Currency code:BRL
Human Resources at a Glance
Contract Terms
Contracts must be in Portuguese or English, and can be bilingual. They must be in writing and signed by both parties.
A contract must include:
- Name
- Start date
- Place of work
- Length of the employment
- Job description
- Termination conditions
Guidelines Regarding Probation Period/Trial Period
Probation periods are not mandatory. There is no minimum probation period. The maximum probation period is 90 days (3 months).
Fixed-term contracts cannot have probation periods.
Regulations and Rules Regarding Working Hours
Standard working hours are 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week. The standard work week is from Monday to Friday.
Employees can also work for 8 hours per day, 44 hours per week from Monday to Saturday, with 4 hours on Saturdays.
Overtime is paid according to the following rates
All work in excess of the 44-hour weekly standard is subject to overtime pay and is subject to employment contracts/collective agreements, etc. In general, overtime is capped at 2 hours per day and is paid at 150.00% of the standard rate. The salary for holiday work can be up to 200.00% of the regular salary.
Minimum Wage Requirements
National minimum wage R$1,412.00 per month
Payroll Cost for Employers
The employer cost is generally estimated at 36.8% of the employee salary + Meal Voucher
- The Fundo de Garantia do Tempo e Serviço (FGTS) – 8%*
- Social Security – 28.8%*
- Meal allowance – 40 BRL per working day, estimated at BRL 880 monthly
*These costs are calculated on the employee’s monthly salary including bonus and allowances
The amount for the meal voucher is calculated as BRL 40 per working day in the month, therefore the exact amount may vary.
Annual Costs
- 13th Salary – 1 month salary, calculated as the gross monthly salaries received during the year including other salary payments, such as bonuses, allowances, and divided by 12.
- Union Bonus (profit sharing) – BRL 300.50 a year (~USD 59)
- Vacation Bonus – One-third of the employee’s monthly salary or one-third of the vacation days taken
Conditional Costs
- Abono Pecuniário – Employees can choose to receive up to 10 days of their vacation bonus paid out instead of using them as paid time off.
- Childcare allowance – Female employees with children aged 0-60 months are entitled to a monthly childcare allowance up to 290.98 BRL per child.
Termination
Grounds
Terminations must respect complex rules and the rules of an employee’s employment country. The off-boarding is always handled by the Employer with the primary stakeholders. It may include ad-hoc fees as well as required or recommended steps on specific termination cases.
Terminations in Brazil can be complex. There is at-will termination in Brazil for employers except for certain employees (pregnant, suffer an accident at work, or are elected president of the internal commission for accident prevention).
Compliant terminations in Brazil include:
- By mutual agreement
- Voluntarily by the employee
- Unilaterally by the employer based on justified reasons
- Gross misconduct
- Substance abuse
- Breach of trade secrets
- Disciplinary dismissal
- By the expiration of the contract
Notice Period
The minimum notice period is 1 month and will be increased according to the length of employment.
- Up to 1 year of employment – 30 days of notice
- Above 1 year of employment – the notice period is increased by 3 days for each year worked until the maximum notice period of 90 days is reached
Severance compensation
In Brazil, if employees are terminated without cause, employees are entitled to:
- Balance salary
- Unused holiday payouts
- Proportional 13th salary (bonus payment)
- 40% of the FGTS paid during employment
If employees are terminated with cause, employees are entitled to: - Balance salary
- Unused holiday payouts
- Proportional 13th salary (bonus payment)
Payment & leave Compensation & Holidays
SalaryPayment
Monthly
Payslip Payroll
All payroll transactions must be in Brazilian currency – BRL.
Annual Leave
Both full-time and part-time employees are entitled to 30 calendar days of paid time off (PTO) a year. PTO accrues monthly at 2.5 days per month. Employees are eligible for annual leave after 1 year of work. During the first year of employment, an employee is not allowed to take any leave.
Please note: Our platform works in working days and the brazil PTO is in calendar days. (20 working days – 30 calendar days).
Sick Leave
There is no maximum period for employees to take sick leave. This leave is paid at different rates and by different payers depending upon length:
| Period | Pay (% of salary) | Payer |
| 0 – 15 days | 100% | Employer |
| 15 days onwards | 91% (maximum amount paid is BRL 6.433,57) | Social Security Agency (INSS) |
Maternity & Parental Leave
Pregnant employees are entitled to 120 days of paid leave. The employee will receive 100% of their average salary during this period, and the employer will be responsible for this pay. However, the government returns this amount in tax deductions in the same month.
In Brazil, no law covers parental leave. However, employees may be entitled to maternity leave and paternity leave.
Tax and Social Security Information
Personal Income Tax
The individual income tax ranges from 0% to 27.5%. Income tax is calculated according to progressive rates. Multiple additional factors may impact overall rates such as the marital status and the level of income.
| Gross Annual Income (BRL) | Tax Rate (%) |
| Less than 1,903.98 | 0% |
| 1,903.99 – 2,826.65 | 7.50% |
| 2,826.66 – 3,751.05 | 15.00% |
| 3,751.06 – 4,664.68 | 22.50% |
| Above 4,664.68 | 27.50% |
Social security Public Holidays 2024
| Holidays | Date |
| New Year’s Day | 1.1 |
| Carnival | 2.12-2.13 |
| Good Friday | 3.29 |
| Tiradentes Day | 4.21 |
| Labour Day | 5.1 |
| Corpus Christi | 5.30 |
| Independence Day | 9.7 |
| Our Lady of Aparecida | 10.12 |
| All Souls’ Day | 11.2 |
| Republic Day | 11.15 |
| Black Consciousness Day | 11.20 |
| Christmas Day | 12.25 |
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