Avanços ou retrocessos: a evolução do trabalho doméstico no Brasil

Abstract

Domestic work accompanies the Brazilian society since its inception, and the slave system as its starting point. Were several changes that have occurred since the inauguration of the slave system in Brazil until the present society, and it is within this context that the present study addresses the evolution of domestic work in Brazil. Emphasis will be on recent constitutional amendment approved by Congress, known as the Home PEC, aiming to highlight the innovations that this amendment brought to the labor sphere of domestic workers. The present work aims to clarify what can qualify as domestic employment, as well as bring to light what are the rights and obligations of employees and employers household, and both quick historical analysis of how such legal institution emerged will be made, as well as its evolution to the present day. To develop this work the methodology used was the literature, based on the constitutional and infra-constitutional legislation and Constitutional Amendment 72/2013, books and websites directly related to the subject, thus seeking, gather enough information to make a historical overview of the domestic work in Brazil, as well as demonstrate the current status of this follow-up work in our country, with stanchion also statistical data that pervade this work.