What is Meal allowance (auxílio-alimentação)?

A meal allowance is the benefit that covers the employee’s meals. What is litigated is its nature: paid habitually and in cash, outside the PAT and without a collective-agreement provision, it tends to integrate the salary (Súmula 241 of the TST), with reflex effects; enrolled in the Workers’ Food Program (Law 6.321/1976) or defined as indemnity in a collective agreement, it does not (art. 457, §2º, of the CLT).

The difference is financially decisive: salary nature multiplies the amount through reflex effects, while indemnity nature limits it to the benefit itself.

How LABORIS AI uses it

LABORIS AI checks the benefit’s classification — PAT, collective agreement, form of payment — to estimate whether the integration claim has support, avoiding provisioning reflex effects on an item the documentation rules out.