Brazil’s MP das bets has already cost 3,500 jobs, with 5,600 layoffs expected within 90 days, ANJL preliminary data shows

Preliminary numbers from Brazil’s National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) suggest that the fixed-odds betting ban under MP nº 1.394/2026 has already hit more than half of the sector’s workforce. For PSPs and other high-risk vendors, the important part is not just the headline job losses, but the spillover into payments, tech, compliance, marketing, and affiliate supply chains.

1. According to the ANJL survey, 23% of the sector’s workforce has already been dismissed and 28% is on collective leave since the publication of MP nº 1.394/2026. The projected total for 90 days is 37% of the workforce out of the market.
2. Applied to the industry’s roughly 15,000 workers, those percentages translate into about 3,500 dismissed employees and 4,167 on collective leave. In three months, total dismissals are expected to reach 5,600, which means another 2,100 jobs gone beyond the losses already recorded.
3. In total, dismissed and temporarily sidelined workers account for 51% of the sector’s labor force, or more than 7,600 people, in less than two weeks after the measure took effect. That is the scale ANJL is trying to quantify with the survey.
4. The questionnaire is aimed at both operators and service providers, and it is meant to capture direct and indirect job losses. Companies are being asked to have HR or management fill it out, and operators were instructed to pass it on to affected suppliers and partners.
5. ANJL says the counts should include dismissals and contract terminations from 25 September 2026, the date the government announced the measure. Responses are due this Wednesday (7), after which the association plans to publish aggregated and anonymized data only.

The catch is that the number is still moving. ANJL says the chain includes payment methods, technology, customer support, compliance, marketing, agencies, affiliates, and media outlets, so the final damage may be higher once the responses are consolidated. Collective leave is being used as a holding pattern while companies wait for the Supremo Tribunal Federal, where cases against the MP are under the rapporteurship of Justice Luiz Fux, and for Congress to vote on the measure.