A reforma trabalhista brasileira e o projeto doing business: a regulação do contrato de trabalho sob os influxos dos organismos internacionais

Abstract

Neoliberalism has potentiated an interdependence of markets to submit national economies to the command of globalized capital and to enable vertical integration of transnational economic groups, removing regional barriers to capitalist expansion. The World Bank has been crucial in shaping economic convergence policies across countries. An iconic action by the World Bank is the Doing Business project that collects, systematizes and disseminates data and rankings pertaining to ease of doing business. The project was consolidated as one of the programs of action that promotes reform of the normative frameworks in accordance with neoliberal doctrine and under the perspective of the economic analysis of the law. The research investigated the influence of Doing Business on Brazilian labor reform from the database available on the web from 2003 to 2018. The study shoewd the hypothesis that labor market reforms in Brazil have been influenced by the World Bank. It was evidenced that the Brazilian reform aligned with the guidelines of the Doing Business sought to implode the protective legislation of the work and presented an exacerbated face of neoliberalism. The research points to the asymmetries of Law n. 13.467/2017 and an emergency exit from the application of international treaties and the civilian principles of social function of ownership.