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Market roundup: Equal pay law an essential step for the Brazilian workplace

A look at Brazil’s new equal pay law

Brazil’s new equal pay law, which went into effect in early July, imposes penalties on companies that wage discrimination between men and women performing the same job. 

In an interview with The Brazilian Report, Margareth Goldenberg, a diversity consultant who has worked with companies such as Magazine Luiza (retail), Santander (banking), and Vivo (telecommunications), sees the new legislation as positive. 

For her, the law sends...

Diogo Rodriguez

Diogo Rodriguez is a social scientist and journalist based in São Paulo. He worked in the first Brazilian Report team, back in 2017, leaving in 2018 to pursuit a master's degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He has returned to The Brazilian Report in 2023.

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