# Translation The New Desenrola Brasil Program – Legal Entity, launched in May, has already accumulated over R$ 8 billion in contracts and approximately 65,000 operations completed. The information was provided this Thursday (28) by the Minister of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprises and Small Business (MEMP), Paulo Pereira. In an interview with the program Bom Dia, Ministro, produced by Brasil de Comunicação Company (EBC), he highlighted that the objective of the federal initiative is to improve the financial condition of companies, with lower interest rates than those practiced in the financial market and longer payment terms.

# Translation The Minister of Entrepreneurship, Micro and Small Business (MEMP), Paulo Henrique Pereira, said this Thursday (28th) that the federal government is studying the expansion of employee hiring by individual microentrepreneurs (MEIs), following the approval of changes to Brazilian workers' work schedules. On the evening of Wednesday (27th), the Chamber of Deputies plenary approved Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) 221/2019, which ends the six-day work schedule with one day off (6x1 shift) and reduces the weekly workday from 44 to 40 hours, without salary reductions. The measure goes to the Federal Senate for analysis and voting.