Reforma trabalhista e desenvolvimento regional: funcionalidades do contrato intermitente na cidade de Campina Grande/PB

Abstract

The implementation of the recent labor reform in Brazil represented one of the stages of transformation of contemporary capitalism, having as main justification the need to "modernize" labor relations. By proposing such a change in legislation, the federal government estimated a significant increase in formal jobs in two years. Although the unemployment rate has decreased, although this reduction cannot be attributed to the reform, the total number of employed persons represented a small contingent of workers, in 2019, being much lower than expected. This research aims to analyze labor reform from the perspective of job creation and element of change in labor relations, with emphasis on the functionality of the Intermittent Contract in Campina Grande-PB. Attendance to this objective required the development of a qualitative, bibliographic and field study, whose data were obtained from the literature produced on the subject and from semi-structured interviews applied with some social actors representing workers' class entities. It was concluded, from the speech of the respondents, that the labor reform with the Intermittent Contract represents a retrogression to the nineteenth century (a kind of contemporary slavery, in analogy to the slave period), with deleterious effects on labor relations and wage income.