Reforma trabalhista: uma análise psicossocial

Abstract

Working continues to be a core activity in people’s lives in contemporary and the State fulfills an important role in regulating and structuring working world as the promoter of security and social protection. Brazilian government has approved a labor reform which aims to make existing systems more flexible to enhance productivity, competitiveness and formalization of employment relationships. Reform critics indicate that flexibilization will increase precariousness of work. Through a documentary analysis, this paper aimed to discuss the possibilities, problems and contradictions of the reform from a psychosocial analysis. The main contribution this paper offers is the twofold consequence of a Labor Reform based on individualization, flexibilization and free negotiation of employment relationships. On the one hand, it will chiefly benefit entrepreneurs and highly skilled and high-income workers, what turns working flexibilization into a beneficial outcome. And, on the other hand, it will hamper the social supports required by most of the workers when weakening trade unions and relativizing social protections provided by State actions. One possible consequence is more vulnerability of most of workers, what turns working flexibilization into working precariousness.