Empregado doméstico: uma análise jurídico-social da emenda constitucional n°72/2013.

Abstract

Brazil, since the time when it was a colony until today , has undergone changes in its laws glimpsing adapt to growth and social development . In this context , domestic work has also been transformed , since initially found itself directly related to slavery , but that was being cut over many years , leading the housework now played in most homes of Brazilian families . Domestic work it is a growing activity in society , considering the new reality of Brazilian families , whose members are leaving their homes to seek labor market conditions to support their families , which ends up causing the need of a worker to perform household chores . In this vein , with the importance of the activity developed by the domestic worker this study is developed in order to analyze the rights granted to that class of workers , from its origin to the present time , weighing the legal impact of these social changes over time , pondering its applicability in the context of the Brazilian reality , specifically with regard to the changes introduced when the Constitutional Amendment n°. 72/2013 which granted new wording to the sole paragraph of Article 7 of the Constitution , guaranteeing new rights for domestic workers . To do so , it will use the deductive methods , history , comparative literature and enabling understandings considered in this study . Abstracting from the present study that even before the repair of an apparent discrimination has long suffered by these workers , you cannot believe that equality envisaged in the Constitution was finally respected , since the rights were only standardized , while there is still a long way for them to be put into practice and thus ensure true equality .