Assédio Moral e Psicossocial: uma análise entre ex-motoristas do transporte coletivo urbano de Pelotas - RS

Abstract

Moral harassment is taking proportions in the world of work, being mainly observed as the element that contributes to degrade labor relations. Besides violating human dignity, it also brings damage to the health of workers. The present research was developed from this perspective, having as its main goal to analyze whether psychosocial moral harassment interfered in the health-illness process of former drivers from the urban public transport in the city of Pelotas, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We have related the general conditions of these former workers to three bus companies from the referred city. The choice of the “driver” as our study object results from the very nature of his work, which, in addition to its complexity, is also considered arduous, reason why we have taken the thematic history of six former drivers as empirical reference. The analysis results lead to the conclusion that moral harassment has actually been present in the reality of four out of the six former drivers investigated, since they were morally harassed and developed physical and mental illnesses.