Consolidação das condições degradantes de trabalho: análise jurisprudencial e administrativa capaz de superar a abstração do conceito

• Autor(a) principal: Aquino, Vitória Carvalho de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Haddad, Carlos Henrique Borlido, Andrade, Lorena Góes Pimenta de Pádua
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/84379
• topic: Direito; Trabalho escravo contemporâneo. Condições degradantes de trabalho. Art. 149 do Código Penal.; Contemporary slave labor. Degrading work conditions. Art. 149 of the Brazilian Penal Code.

The present study aims to overcome the apparent lack of definition and abstraction of the concept of degrading work conditions – provided for in art. 149, of the Brazilian Penal Code, as a characterization of contemporary slave labor –, notably in the face of legislative proposals that try to extinguish this hypothesis of the criminal type. Therefore, the research started from the analysis of 977 inspection reports and 313 criminal sentences, related to crimes of submission to slave labor due to degrading conditions, to identify patterns used administratively and judicially when characterizing that crime. Indeed, it was possible to identify a certain uniformity in the understanding of labor inspectors and federal judges, who recognize, with expressive frequency, the incidence of five indicators of degradation, regardless of the region of the country, namely: precarious housing, precarious or absent sanitary facilities, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), inadequate storage of water and food, and water deprivation. In this way, based on the consolidation of these data, the study concludes with the proposition of an objective concept of degrading working conditions, capable of guiding the administrative and penal framework of the modality related to the crime provided for in art. 149 of the Penal Code and to ward off attempts to weaken the protection afforded to workers in slavery conditions.