Employment-Insurance Program implantation and workers’ health at automotive industry

Abstract

The aim is to analyze the importance of Employment-Insurance Program in relation to workers’ health of ABC automotive industry. The methodology included a documentary research based on collective work agreements, legislation, companies’ and trade unions’ documents. In 2015, Brazilian government launched the Employment-Insurance Program as a response to the economic crisis, allowing working hours and salaries’ reduction (up to 30%) for a maximum of 24 months. The Program obtained support from employers and part of trade unionism. The results indicates that the Employment-Insurance Program is part of a new expansion cycle of economy, with productive transformations in automotive industry, enlarging and deepening work intensification as a form of workers’ wear. Besides, the Program participates of employers’ strategy to maintain productive work and exclude “compatible” workers – those with partial work inability. Employment-Insurance Program inclusion in labor reform makes it a permanent alternative for utilization by employers. Thus, it is an important theme to research and intervention in Public Health and Workers’ Health.