📅 2 Desèmber 1937
Decree-Law 37 of 2 December 1937 dissolved Brazil’s political parties under the Estado Novo dictatorship. The Frente Negra Brasileira had converted itself into a political party in 1936; it could no...
📅 26 Novèmber 1930
Decree 19,433 created the Ministry of Labor, Industry and Commerce, centralizing federal oversight of labor relations and social insurance. The new ministry could recognize and regulate worker...
📅 1 Mei 1940
Decree-Law 2,162 instituted a statutory minimum wage and set regional schedules. A wage floor recognized workers as people with claims on employers, but protections depended on which sectors and...
📅 1 Mei 1943
Decree-Law 5,452 approved the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), organizing many existing labor rules. Its exclusions left domestic service and much rural work outside key protections. Since...
📅 11 Òktober 1945
Decree-Law 8,079 revised Article 7 of the CLT, listing domestic workers and rural workers among those to whom most provisions did not apply. The legal split was not written as a race clause, but it...
📅 30 Novèmber 1937
Decree-Law 25 established federal heritage listing (tombamento), defining national heritage through historical, archaeological, ethnographic, bibliographic, and artistic value. In practice, early...
