Analyzed statement

What Kim Kataguiri said about grant 14 days per year leave for workers to care for sick children

About: grant 14 days per year leave for workers to care for sick children

Kim Kataguiri: Mr. President, this is one of those bills with good intentions but with a harmful effect.

Kim Kataguiri: It harms precisely the group it intends to benefit. From the moment you establish that, during 1 year, for 14 days, the worker has the right...

Thus, it is obvious that this is reasonable, it is evident that everyone would like this to happen in practice, but let us understand the effect of public policy, which is generally very different from the intention.

Kim Kataguiri · 484:21

Kim Kataguiri: It is established that, during 1 year, the worker may be absent for 14 days to take care of a 12-year-old child who is ill.

Kim Kataguiri: What will happen is the perverse incentive created: people who have children under 12 will not be hired and therefore will be more harmed than benefited because, when doing the calculations, the entrepreneur who wants to balance his accounts, and as Deputy Adriana pointed out, in most cases is micro or small, will look for those who pose the smallest risks for labor costs.

Why it was classified this way · 85% confidence

warns about unintended effects of the public policy versus its intent.

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