FILE PHOTO: Brazil's president Michel Temer looks on before a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil April 24, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower house of Congress on Wednesday approved the main text of a bill to relax the country's restrictive labour laws, a main plank of President Michel Temer's efforts to bolster investment and pull the economy out of its worst recession ever.
The measure passed by 296-177 in an expected victory to Temer who is struggling with low approval ratings amid a sweeping corruption scandal. The lower house still has to vote amendments to the proposal, which scraps some limits to temporary work, before it heads to the Senate.
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