Precarity and flexibility in public sector fixed-term contracts: Perceptions of the Judiciary

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira Parisio, Isabela
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ari Sundfeld, Carlos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Gestão Pública e Cidadania (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cgpc/article/view/83041
• topic: fixed-term contracts; public servants; working ties with the Sate; Public Management Reform; Public Administrative Reform; contratación temporal; empleado estatal; vínculos de trabajo con el Estado; Reforma de los recursos humanos públicos; Reforma Administrativa; contratação temporária; servidor público; vínculos de trabalho com o Estado; reforma dos recursos humanos públicos; Reforma Administrativa

Exploratory jurisprudential research of the decisions of the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ-SP) between July 2019 and July 2020 reveals the main current legal controversies over the municipal and state public agents hired throughout fixed-term contracts, i.e., temporary civil servants (cf., Brazilian Federal Constitution, art. 37, IX). The research shows the difference in the legal rights granted to civil servants who are statutory and "celetistas" (in the Portuguese acronym), on one side, and temporary agents, on the other, generating tension between them. It suggests that reducing the fixed-term contracts precariousness should be an objective of the Administrative Reform. It also shows that even though the Judiciary is sensitive to the need for flexibility in public human resources management, the Court strives to prevent the fixed-term contracts' uncontrolled expansion, to avoid the devaluation of the public tender institute in the hiring processes of public agents.