Effects were intensified and added to some subtle changes, originating in Decree 7,721, dated April 16, 2011, whose effects have been in effect since July 2012. However, many workers still do not know that the rules for receiving unemployment insurance have changed – ignorance that may result in cancellation of the benefit.

The most relevant change implemented by the government

The most relevant change implemented by the government is valid only for workers who receive unemployment insurance three times or more in ten years. In these cases, the worker will be referred to some of the professional training courses organized by the Ministry of Labor in partnership with institutions such as Senac, Sesi, Senar and other institutes of education.

It is worth remembering that the measure is retroactive, that is, who receives the benefit for the third time in ten years, will be sent to the course. In case of non-attendance or disapproval for faults, the employee will lose the right to benefit, damaging his financial health.

Curriculum was designed specifically to achieve the levels of professional qualification

The courses were organized and framed within the dictates of the National Program of Access to Technical Education (Pronatec), which meant that the curriculum was designed specifically to achieve the levels of professional qualification required by the market. In this way, training courses under the Ministry of Labor are distributed in areas such as industrial process management, business management, security, infrastructure, etc., totaling 443 specialties.

The measure is a response to the frequent complaints

All courses offered will last 160 hours and will be taught for free. The measure is a response to the frequent complaints of the industrial sector, which can not fill its vacancies due to lack of skilled labor.

In this process, companies lose in international competitiveness and workers lose because they can not fill the vacancies available in the national market. The new rules on unemployment insurance are great measures to speed up the process of reintegrating labor into the market and thus do not harm the financial health of families or the productivity of companies.