Trabalho doméstico: as percepções sociais sobre a nova legislação trabalhista em audiências na Justiça do Trabalho de Pelotas

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to elucidate and understand the social structure and legal developments of domestic work in Brazil.. This research has relevance in the current moment in which the Labor Court begins to judge the labor actions involving domestic work in light of Law no. 150 of 2015 that extended labor rights foreseen in the Consolidation of Labor Laws for domestic employees. Until then the category in vogue did not have basic rights as control of working hours and collection of the Guarantee Fund of Time of Service. The attempt to understand the social actors perception about this substantial new labor legislations was based on the observation of the Pelotas Labor Court hearings and interviews with social actors involved in domestic work, as an employee and employer, lawyers and labor judges. The trajectory of the struggle for legal and social recognition of the category of domestic workers, made up mostly of women, will serve as a basis for understanding the changes brought about by the new legislation and how the labor judiciary in Pelotas is facing these changes.