O direito à desconexão: um panorama dos reflexos sociais contemporâneos do trabalho sem fim

Abstract

"The right to disconnect: a panorama of the social and contemporary reflexes of ceaseless work", is grounded on the line of research "State, Development and Social Inequalities", which is a study presented to support an interdisciplinary analysis of work relations driven by discipline, computerization and intensive submission to labour, furthermore the demand for a work activity after the end of the legal working day undertaken, resulting on a serious social crisis, the health and leisure of the private worker’s life, depriving him of his social time, with emphasis on the new modalities of work contracts not only in Brazil but all over the world in the last century. The hermeneutic study of labour laws has always been intimately linked to the interdisciplinary field, but the socioeconomic transformations that have been occurring with the advancement of labour relations – i.e. outsourcing, flexibilization, telecommuting and computerization, informality, all these results of modern society – have consequences that requires thorough examination under the aegis of a system driven by financial logic which victimizes the basis of the pyramid: the working class. The goal of the study is to understand the phenomenon of extreme connection to the work of employees notably after the approval of Law 13467/17, coined as Labour Reform, that forged the justification of loosening the hiring practices and warming up the job market although it set up a vast field for the extension of the length of service on demand of the employer without clear reparation policies, such as intermittent work, omission of in itinere hours and changing into uniform time, which keeps the worker under the yoke of an endless journey without extra compensation.