Luckily for Konka, the workers began to accept the new contract system as productivity and thus wages and bonuses rose.

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Pre-Sal Petroleo would also run a new contract system that allows the state to implement production-sharing agreements that would direct more of the oil windfall to the state than to the oil companies whenever the price of oil goes up.

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The new contract and pay system will use a banding structure to reflect hours worked, what shifts they are working and the intensity of the job.

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