A sobrejornada de trabalho com prestação de horas extras associada ao desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares.

Abstract

The legal institutes develop according to the social and political changes that happens in society, the workload also followed this evolutionary tendency adding new foundations to the structure over the years. The aim of this work was to analyze and correlate the workload added with overtime and the negative impacts to workers' health, with a special focus on cardiovascular pathologies. It begins with a presentation of the general aspects of labor and employment relations, determining the concepts and applications necessary for the best development of work. Then, the workload is highlighted, the evolutionary process is approached, the concepts and legal disciplines of the workload, afterwards are analyzed the effects that are normally caused by the overtime hours. Shortly after, the research orbits the universe of advanced or aggravated occupational diseases through the execution of the extraordinary journey. Finally, this research achieves its primary purpose, associating overtime hours with cardiovascular pathological reflexes, indicating each effect and interconnecting with cardiovascular disease risk factors. It is a qualitative research, to approach the problem is classified as the objectives as explanatory, as the technical procedures as bibliographic and documentary and also in nature, is characterized as applied. The result of the study demonstrates that it is necessary to improve the legal regulation in Brazil despite the permission to use overtime, since it should only be applied in exceptional situations and not indiscriminately.