How to Apply to Assaí Atacadista

12 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 2265 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Assaí Atacadista is Brazil's #1 pure-play cash-and-carry (atacarejo) retailer, ~80,000 employees, ~R$75 billion in annual gross revenue, 300+ stores, listed on B3 (ASAI3) and NYSE as an ADR, headquartered in Jundiaí (São Paulo state) and led by CEO Belmiro Gomes.
  • The company has been a standalone public entity since the March 2021 spin-off from GPA (Grupo Pão de Açúcar / Casino), and the 2021-2024 conversion of former Extra Hipermercado stores into the Assaí banner is the defining strategic chapter of its recent history.
  • All hiring runs through Gupy at assai.gupy.io (with vagas.assai.com.br as the public-facing URL). Treat your Gupy profile as a durable career asset — it is the same platform used by most major Brazilian employers.
  • Apply in Portuguese, mirror the posting's keywords literally, and quantify operational impact in Brazilian retail metrics (ruptura, quebra, margem, ticket médio, faturamento em reais).
  • Hourly store hiring is fast (sometimes 48-72 hours from application to offer) and WhatsApp is a primary recruiter channel. Corporate hiring at Jundiaí and São Paulo capital runs three to six weeks with structured panels and case exercises.
  • Trainee and estágio programs are high-volume, highly competitive, and follow a distinct multi-stage assessment funnel inside Gupy; application windows are narrow and annual.
  • What moves the needle in interviews: operational fluency, willingness to work retail hours, geographic mobility within Brazil, and genuine belief in the atacarejo format's long-term structural growth.

About Assaí Atacadista

Assaí Atacadista is the largest pure-play cash-and-carry (atacarejo) retailer in Brazil and one of the country's most important employers, with a workforce of roughly 80,000 people serving small business owners, restaurateurs, convenience store operators, and price-conscious household shoppers across every Brazilian region. Headquartered in Jundiaí (São Paulo state) and listed on both B3 (ticker ASAI3) and the New York Stock Exchange as an ADR, the company generates annual gross revenue in the neighborhood of R$75 billion and has become a standalone public company since its March 2021 spin-off from Grupo Pão de Açúcar (GPA), which was itself controlled by the French Casino Group. Under CEO Belmiro Gomes, Assaí has expanded to roughly 300+ stores and deliberately positioned itself as the price leader in a retail segment that blends wholesale buying power with a walk-in consumer experience. The atacarejo format — part warehouse club, part hypermarket, part traditional wholesaler — is unique to Brazil and has outgrown conventional supermarkets for well over a decade, making Assaí both a volume employer and a career destination for retail professionals who want to work inside the format that has genuinely reshaped Brazilian grocery. A defining chapter of the company's recent history was the acquisition and conversion of dozens of Extra Hipermercado stores following Casino's 2021 divestiture of that banner; the bulk of those conversions were completed in 2023 and 2024, and the integration is now behind the business, though balance-sheet pressure from the associated debt remains a topic of analyst attention. For candidates, that context matters: Assaí is a growth-stage public company that is simultaneously maturing its processes, tightening its cost discipline, and competing hard on same-store sales against Atacadão (Carrefour Brasil), Sam's Club, and regional atacarejo operators. The people who thrive here tend to be operators who enjoy scale, speed, and a very Brazilian blend of formality and warmth — the kind of retailer who can run a floor in São Paulo on a Saturday and also sit through a quarterly review in the corporate office at Jundiaí. If you read Portuguese, are comfortable with Brazilian CLT employment norms (carteira assinada), and want to work inside a nationally significant company that is still writing its post-spin-off story, Assaí is one of the most consequential employers in Brazilian retail today.

Application Process

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    Start at the official careers portal at vagas

    Start at the official careers portal at vagas.assai.com.br, which redirects into the company's Gupy-powered job board at assai.gupy.io — this is the single source of truth for open roles. Assaí does not meaningfully recruit through email submissions or store walk-ins for corporate or distribution-center positions, and even high-volume hourly hiring at the stores is increasingly funneled through Gupy so that the company can maintain a consistent candidate record.

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    Create a Gupy candidate profile using your personal CPF, full legal name, and an

    Create a Gupy candidate profile using your personal CPF, full legal name, and an active mobile number. Gupy is the dominant ATS across Brazilian large-enterprise hiring and your profile will persist across applications at Assaí, Magazine Luiza, iFood, Ambev, and hundreds of other Gupy employers — treat it as a long-term career asset and fill out the education, experience, and skills sections in Portuguese with the same care you would give a formal currículo.

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    Filter roles by localidade (city/state), área (function), and nível hierárquico

    Filter roles by localidade (city/state), área (function), and nível hierárquico (seniority). Because Assaí has 300+ stores, the volume of open positions in store operations — operador de caixa, repositor, açougueiro, padeiro, fiscal de prevenção de perdas, líder de setor, gerente de loja — is very high, and many postings are attached to a specific unidade (store unit). Apply to the unit that matches where you can realistically commute; Assaí will not typically relocate hourly staff.

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    Submit your currículo in Portuguese

    Submit your currículo in Portuguese. A one-to-two page resume is standard in Brazil and should include your CPF-linked name, contact information, endereço (at least city/state), formação acadêmica, experiência profissional in reverse-chronological order, and an objetivo or short resumo profissional at the top. English resumes are not required except for specific corporate or international-facing roles (treasury, investor relations, trade, technology).

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    Complete the Gupy-hosted questionário

    Complete the Gupy-hosted questionário — a short set of knockout questions about availability, shift flexibility (especially evenings and weekends for store roles), commute distance, PcD (Pessoa com Deficiência) status if applicable, and any required certifications such as manipulação de alimentos for bakery/butcher positions or CNH categoria D for driver roles.

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    Expect a Gupy-triggered assessment for corporate, analyst, and coordinator-level

    Expect a Gupy-triggered assessment for corporate, analyst, and coordinator-level roles. These are typically behavioral/cognitive tests run through Gupy's embedded vendor partners and take 20 to 45 minutes. They are proctored only loosely but are tracked and retaken attempts are visible to recruiters — do it once, do it honestly, and do it in a quiet environment.

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    For trainee and estágio (internship) programs, Assaí runs structured annual inta

    For trainee and estágio (internship) programs, Assaí runs structured annual intakes branded as Programa Trainee Assaí and Programa de Estágio Assaí. These use the same Gupy portal but layer additional stages: multiple online assessments, a video pitch submission, a painel case study, and a final in-person or virtual panel with leadership. Application windows are narrow (often four to eight weeks) and volume is in the tens of thousands of applicants for a few dozen seats.

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    Hourly store roles move fast

    Hourly store roles move fast. After Gupy screening, the unit's recruitment lead or the gerente de loja will call or message via WhatsApp — WhatsApp is a primary recruiter channel in Brazilian retail, so save any +55 number that contacts you through Gupy and reply in business hours. A first interview is often scheduled within 48 to 72 hours, sometimes same-day.

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    Corporate roles at the Jundiaí headquarters and at the regional escritórios in S

    Corporate roles at the Jundiaí headquarters and at the regional escritórios in São Paulo capital follow a more deliberate timeline: initial recruiter screen via video, hiring manager interview, a technical or case round depending on the function, and a final panel with one or two senior leaders. End-to-end time is typically three to six weeks.

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    Offers are delivered in Portuguese and follow Brazilian CLT norms: carteira assi

    Offers are delivered in Portuguese and follow Brazilian CLT norms: carteira assinada (formal employment book), 13º salário, férias with one-third bonus, vale-transporte, vale-refeição or refeitório no local, plano de saúde for eligible tiers, and for store roles an assiduidade/performance bonus structure. Read the proposta carefully — probationary period (contrato de experiência) is typically 45+45 days.

Resume Tips for Assaí Atacadista

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Write in Brazilian Portuguese unless the job description is explicitly bilingual

Write in Brazilian Portuguese unless the job description is explicitly bilingual. Gupy's parser is tuned for Portuguese resumes and the recruiters reading your profile are Brazilian — a currículo in English will read as out-of-market unless the role is in IR, treasury, international trade, or enterprise tech.

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Use the word 'atacarejo' explicitly if you have relevant experience

Use the word 'atacarejo' explicitly if you have relevant experience. It is the industry shorthand for cash-and-carry and Gupy keyword searches from Assaí recruiters actively filter on it. Also include 'autosserviço', 'varejo', 'hipermercado', 'supermercado', 'PDV', and 'ponto de venda' where genuinely applicable.

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Quantify retail outcomes in Brazilian terms: ruptura (stockouts), quebra (shrink

Quantify retail outcomes in Brazilian terms: ruptura (stockouts), quebra (shrink/loss), margem, ticket médio, conversão, NPS, giro de estoque, SKU count, and faturamento in reais. A line like 'Reduzi ruptura de 8% para 3% em 6 meses em loja com faturamento mensal de R$12 milhões' is vastly more effective than an abstract 'improved operations'.

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List your CNH category and status (A, B, C, D, E, válida, habilitado a conduzir)

List your CNH category and status (A, B, C, D, E, válida, habilitado a conduzir) if the role involves driving, and list NR certifications (NR-10, NR-11, NR-20, NR-33, NR-35) if you are applying to distribution-center, maintenance, or safety roles — these are frequently knockout criteria in Gupy filters.

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For food-handling and bakery/butcher positions, name your Manipulação de Aliment

For food-handling and bakery/butcher positions, name your Manipulação de Alimentos certification, any Boas Práticas de Fabricação training, and specific cuts or techniques (açougue, desossa, porcionamento, padaria de produção, confeitaria) rather than leaving them as implied.

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Corporate and analytical roles should lean on numeracy: Excel avançado, Power BI

Corporate and analytical roles should lean on numeracy: Excel avançado, Power BI, SAP (Assaí runs a heavy SAP landscape for finance, supply chain, and HR), Oracle Retail, and SQL are the most-searched keywords in corporate postings. Certifications from FGV, Insper, FIA, USP, or a well-known Brazilian MBA program should be listed by name.

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Include PcD status only if you want to apply to reserved vagas afirmativas — Ass

Include PcD status only if you want to apply to reserved vagas afirmativas — Assaí, like other Brazilian employers above 100 staff, is subject to the Lei de Cotas (Law 8.213/91) and posts dedicated PcD openings. Gupy has a structured field for this; do not bury it in free text.

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Keep the resume to two pages maximum, use a clean Arial or Calibri at 10-11pt, a

Keep the resume to two pages maximum, use a clean Arial or Calibri at 10-11pt, and avoid photos unless the role is customer-facing and the posting requests one. Brazilian recruiters still see photos more often than US or European recruiters, but Gupy's own templates increasingly discourage them to reduce bias.

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Mirror the posting's language

Mirror the posting's language. Gupy's resume parser and Assaí's internal scoring will reward literal keyword matches: if the vaga says 'operador de caixa', say 'operador de caixa' — do not write 'cashier', 'atendente de checkout', or a creative paraphrase. The system is literal.

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Attach a short carta de apresentação only when the posting explicitly asks for o

Attach a short carta de apresentação only when the posting explicitly asks for one. For most operational roles it is not requested and will not be read; for trainee, estágio, and specific corporate leadership roles, a focused one-page letter in Portuguese that references Assaí's atacarejo positioning, the Extra conversion history, and your specific motivation is a genuine differentiator.

ATS System: Gupy

Gupy is the dominant applicant tracking system in Brazilian large-enterprise recruiting and is the sole ATS used by Assaí Atacadista, hosted at assai.gupy.io with the public careers portal vagas.assai.com.br redirecting into it. Gupy is a Brazilian, São Paulo-based SaaS product that combines job posting, resume parsing, AI-assisted candidate ranking, assessment orchestration, video-interview capture, and structured knockout questionnaires into a single candidate-facing and recruiter-facing workflow. Because Gupy is used by hundreds of major Brazilian employers — Magazine Luiza, iFood, Ambev, Natura, Hospital Albert Einstein, Localiza, and most top-50 Brazilian companies by headcount — your Gupy profile is portable across employers, which means the investment you make in filling it out thoroughly pays compounding returns across your Brazilian career. Assaí uses Gupy's full stack: AI-assisted triagem (screening), scheduled assessments, in-platform messaging, and a Gupy-integrated onboarding handoff. Recruiters filter and rank candidates with Gupy's match-score feature, which weights resume keywords, questionário answers, assessment performance, and historical hire patterns at Assaí, so literal keyword parity with the vaga is the single highest-leverage resume-level decision you can make.

  • Fill your Gupy profile completely — the 'experiência', 'formação', and 'competências' sections all feed the match-score engine and an incomplete profile is penalized relative to complete ones.
  • Match the posting's exact Portuguese job title and keywords in your own resume text; Gupy's parser is literal and does not do strong synonym expansion across Portuguese variants.
  • Answer the questionário carefully — knockout questions (availability, shift, location, certifications) will eliminate you before a human ever sees your profile if you answer them incorrectly, and Gupy does not notify you that you were screened out for a knockout reason.
  • Upload your currículo as a text-based PDF, not a scanned image, and not a .jpg — scanned resumes parse poorly and will drop your match score even if the content is strong.
  • Enable WhatsApp and email notifications in your Gupy settings; Assaí recruiters routinely contact candidates via Gupy's integrated WhatsApp channel and an unanswered message within 24-48 hours often drops you from the shortlist for hourly roles.
  • Take any scheduled assessment in a quiet environment on a laptop with a stable connection — Gupy's assessment vendors flag browser switching and multiple attempts, and those flags reach the recruiter's dashboard.
  • Check your 'minhas candidaturas' dashboard weekly; Gupy updates candidate status in near-real-time (triagem, em análise, entrevista, oferta, reprovado) and seeing 'em análise' for more than two weeks is a reliable signal to politely follow up via the in-platform message feature.

Interview Culture

Interviewing at Assaí is distinctly Brazilian: warm, relationship-oriented, and often more formal than Anglo candidates expect, but also pragmatic and operations-heavy in a way that reflects the atacarejo business. For hourly store roles, the first conversation is almost always with the gerente de loja or a unit-level recruiter, frequently on-site at the store you would be working at. These interviews are short — 20 to 30 minutes — and focus on availability, shift flexibility, physical stamina for a large-format store environment, customer-service instincts, and a handful of scenario questions ('um cliente reclama que o preço na gôndola não bate com o do caixa — o que você faz?'). A second conversation, if required, is with the RH regional or the coordenador de operações; by that point the hiring decision is usually already leaning positive and the second round exists mainly to confirm documentation and cultural fit. Offers for hourly roles can arrive within the same week, sometimes within 48 hours. For supervisor, coordinator, and manager roles in the stores, expect three rounds: a recruiter screen (video or phone), a hiring-manager interview at the store or regional office, and a final panel with the gerente regional and an HR business partner. These rounds lean heavily on behavioral questions in the STAR format (situação, tarefa, ação, resultado) and on operational math — expect to be asked to estimate ruptura rates, interpret a DRE (income statement) excerpt, or walk through how you would handle a quebra investigation. At the Jundiaí corporate headquarters and in the São Paulo capital offices, the process is longer and more structured: recruiter screen, hiring manager, a functional panel (often two to three interviewers in one block), a case study or technical exercise depending on the area (finance, supply chain, commercial, technology, people), and a final conversation with a diretor. Interviews are primarily in Portuguese; English is tested only for roles with genuine international scope. Dress code for corporate interviews is business casual leaning formal — Assaí's corporate culture is notably more traditional than a tech company's but less buttoned-up than a bank's. For store interviews, clean and tidy is sufficient and a company uniform conversation often happens on day one. Trainee and estágio interviews are a world of their own: group dynamics, case presentations, painel with leadership, and a deliberate stress-test element. Throughout the process, two cultural signals matter disproportionately at Assaí: respect for the floor (candidates who have worked the operation, not just studied it, get visible credit) and a willingness to be mobile across Brazil's five regions, because growth is national and the best opportunities often sit in the Northeast and South rather than São Paulo capital. Be honest about your mobility; saying 'topo' ('I'm up for it') when you are not will read as misrepresentation later.

What Assaí Atacadista Looks For

  • Comfort with speed and volume. Atacarejo moves enormous SKU counts at thin margins, and Assaí hires for people who are energized rather than overwhelmed by a Saturday afternoon with full parking lots, peak checkout queues, and replenishment running in parallel.
  • Operational literacy over theoretical sophistication. Candidates who can talk fluently about ruptura, quebra, giro, ticket médio, sortimento, and margem em cascata out-compete candidates with elegant strategy frameworks but no feel for the floor.
  • Customer orientation in a B2B2C frame. Assaí's customer base is a hybrid — transformadores (restaurants, padarias, lanchonetes), revendedores (small retailers), and consumer families buying in bulk — and the company values people who can adjust their service posture across these segments without condescension.
  • Fluency in Portuguese at working level. Even corporate roles are Portuguese-first; English is a bonus, not a substitute. Candidates whose Portuguese is shaky will struggle in panel interviews regardless of how strong their CV is internationally.
  • Financial discipline and cost consciousness. The company competes on price, is publicly listed with quarterly earnings pressure, and has absorbed meaningful debt from the Extra conversion — hiring managers are alert to candidates who instinctively think about cost per transaction, labor efficiency, and inventory turns.
  • Willingness to work Brazilian retail hours. Stores trade evenings, weekends, holidays, and extended shifts around dates like Black Friday, Natal, and the start of the month when small businesses restock. Corporate roles are more conventional but still run at retail tempo during peak windows.
  • Resilience and emotional steadiness under public scrutiny. As a listed company (ASAI3 on B3 plus an NYSE ADR), Assaí is covered by sell-side analysts, consumer press, and investor-relations-grade disclosure requirements — corporate candidates are expected to be comfortable with that level of external gaze.
  • Geographic mobility, stated honestly. A genuine 'sim, aceito me mudar para o Nordeste' is a career accelerant; a performative one that reverses later is a career limiter.
  • Cultural humility across Brazil's regions. Assaí operates from Manaus to Porto Alegre and the best operators adapt to regional purchasing patterns, supplier relationships, and work cultures rather than importing a paulista playbook unchanged.
  • A long-horizon mindset about the atacarejo format itself. The company wants people who believe in the format's structural growth, not people who see Assaí as a stepping-stone to a fashion retailer or a tech brand.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I actually apply for a job at Assaí Atacadista?
Start at vagas.assai.com.br, which redirects into the Gupy-hosted careers portal at assai.gupy.io. Every legitimate Assaí opening — from operador de caixa at a store in Recife to a diretor-level corporate role in Jundiaí — is posted there. Assaí does not maintain a parallel application channel; job boards like Vagas.com, InfoJobs, and LinkedIn republish postings but all funnel back into Gupy for the actual application.
Do I need to speak Portuguese to work at Assaí?
Yes, at working fluency, for almost every role. Assaí is a Brazilian retailer with a Portuguese-speaking workforce and customer base; even corporate roles at Jundiaí are conducted in Portuguese day-to-day. English is useful and occasionally tested for investor relations, treasury, international trade, and specific technology roles, but it is always additive to Portuguese, never a replacement for it.
What ATS does Assaí use and how does it affect my application?
Assaí uses Gupy, the dominant Brazilian enterprise ATS. Gupy parses your resume for keywords, administers knockout questionnaires, orchestrates assessments, and produces an AI-assisted match score that recruiters use to rank candidates. The practical consequences: write your resume in Portuguese, mirror the posting's exact keywords, fill your Gupy profile completely, and answer the questionário carefully — knockout questions will filter you out silently before any human sees your file.
How competitive is the Assaí trainee program?
Very. The Programa Trainee Assaí attracts tens of thousands of applicants annually for a few dozen seats, with a multi-stage funnel that includes online assessments, video pitches, case studies, and a final panel with senior leaders. Strong candidates come from recognized Brazilian universities (USP, Unicamp, Insper, FGV, ESPM, FEA, UFRJ, UFMG, UFPE and similar), have an operational or commercial internship already on their CV, and can speak credibly about why atacarejo specifically — not retail generally — is where they want to start their career.
What is the typical interview timeline for a store role vs. a corporate role?
For hourly store roles (operador de caixa, repositor, açougueiro, fiscal de prevenção de perdas, líder de setor), expect 48 hours to about two weeks from Gupy application to offer, with one or two on-site conversations. For corporate roles at the Jundiaí HQ or São Paulo capital offices, expect three to six weeks, including a recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, functional panel or case round, and a final conversation with a diretor.
Is WhatsApp really how recruiters contact candidates?
Yes, very commonly, particularly for store-level hiring. Brazilian recruiting leans heavily on WhatsApp for scheduling and quick clarifications, and Gupy's platform integrates WhatsApp messaging directly. Save any +55 number that contacts you after you apply, respond during business hours, keep your tone professional, and treat the WhatsApp thread as a formal part of the interview process — because it is.
Does Assaí hire PcD (Pessoas com Deficiência) candidates?
Yes. As a Brazilian employer of roughly 80,000 people, Assaí is subject to the Lei de Cotas (Law 8.213/91) and actively recruits for vagas afirmativas. Gupy has a structured PcD field in the candidate profile; declaring your status there routes you into the dedicated PcD funnel where applicable. The company also runs affirmative recruiting initiatives across other dimensions (race, gender, LGBTQIA+) visible on the careers site.
Will I need to relocate?
For hourly store roles, no — you will work at a specific unidade near where you live and Assaí does not typically relocate hourly staff. For corporate roles, possibly: the Jundiaí headquarters and São Paulo capital offices house most corporate functions, and some roles require willingness to travel to stores nationally. For manager and gerente regional roles, geographic mobility across Brazil is often part of the expectation, and honest answers about your mobility window are rewarded.
How does Assaí's compensation and benefits package work?
All employment is under Brazilian CLT (carteira assinada) norms: 13º salário, férias with one-third bonus, vale-transporte, vale-refeição or on-site refeitório, plano de saúde for eligible tiers, plano odontológico, life insurance, and for eligible tiers a PLR (profit-sharing) bonus. Store roles often include an attendance and performance-linked bonus. Corporate roles add structured annual reviews and, at senior levels, stock-based incentives tied to ASAI3.
Is Assaí a stable employer given the Extra acquisition debt?
Assaí is a publicly listed company on B3 (ASAI3) and the NYSE (ADR), which means its financial performance is continuously disclosed and analyzed. Following the 2021-2024 conversion of former Extra Hipermercado stores, the company has carried elevated debt levels that analysts and management both discuss openly, and it has actively worked to deleverage. Employment itself has remained robust — Assaí is among Brazil's larger private-sector employers — and the atacarejo segment has continued to outpace traditional grocery. Candidates should do their own diligence via the investor relations page (ri.assai.com.br) and recent quarterly earnings releases before making a major career decision.

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  6. B3 — ASAI3 (Sendas Distribuidora S.A.) listing —
  7. NYSE — ASAI ADR listing —
  8. Lei nº 8.213/91 — Lei de Cotas para PcD (Brazilian disability-quota employment law) —