IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company.
sales workers have a 44-hour workweek — four hours more than the limit for tech workers. The latter are also entitled to a higher minimum wage, overtime pay, and profit participation — a year-end bonus that depends on the company’s annual profit.
Brazillian IBM have them classified as “comercial” workers, like shop assistants or cashiers, so they’re part of that union that is not very good. They’re fighting to be classified as the correct classification and be part of the correct union, with better perks I suppose.
Correct. When they are classified as tech workers, they get the following:
They also have to work 40 hours a week instead of 44 when they are classified as tech workers.