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  2. Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço - Wikipedia

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    Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) (English: Length-of-Service Guarantee Fund) [1] is a fund created to protect workers in Brazil dismissed without just cause.By opening an account linked to the employment contract, employers deposit in accounts opened at the Caixa Econômica Federal, at the beginning of each month and in the name of the employees, the amount corresponding to 8% of ...

  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Brazil/PLG Glossary - Wikipedia

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    In Brazil, it is is enshrined in the Constitution in Article 5, which states that "No one shall be compelled to do or refrain from doing anything except by law". [61] [f] Prisão Arrest; jail; prison; imprisonment. [a] In the sense of "arrest", it comes in three forms (modalidades) in Brazil: § flagrante, § temporária or § preventiva.

  4. Languages of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, [5] being widely spoken by nearly all of its population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.

  5. Unemployment in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil has a number of different unemployment systems that could help those who have just lost their jobs. First, Brazil has a system called FGTS, Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviço(Time of service guarantee fund), which enables a set of funds to be retrieved from companies and then given to Caixa Econômica Federal, [ 1 ] one of Brazil's ...

  6. BRICS - Wikipedia

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    BRICS is an intergovernmental organization consisting of ten countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

  7. Terminology of the Low Countries - Wikipedia

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    The Franks that stayed in the Low Countries had kept their original language, i.e., Old Dutch, also known as "Old Low Franconian" among linguists. At the time the language was spoken, it was known as *þiudisk, meaning "of the people"—as opposed to the Latin language "of the clergy"—which is the source of the English word Dutch.

  8. Portuñol - Wikipedia

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    Portuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) (pronunciation ⓘ) is a portmanteau of the words portugués/português ("Portuguese") and español/espanhol ("Spanish"), and is the name often given to any non-systematic mixture of Portuguese and Spanish [1] (this sense should not be confused with the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in northern Uruguay by the ...

  9. Quilombo - Wikipedia

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    Brazilian Quilombolas during a meeting in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. A Quilombo in Amapá. A quilombo (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ); from the Kimbundu word kilombo, lit. ' war camp ') [1] is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali.