TELECOMMUTING AND COVID-19: IMPACTS ON WORKERS' LIVES AND HEALTH

Abstract

This article aims to address the issue of labor relations, more precisely on telework before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. This type of work that already occurred in several companies, in some as an option, others as a condition. The article approaches with a study methodology where information was collected through bibliographic research in books, articles and legislations. Recent studies will show the need, valuation, condition and costs of home office work and its new applications, because with the event of the pandemic it proved necessary and in some situations became more efficient to the old labor molds that had prevailed for a long time. With this, there is an evolution in work being accepted and for these new forms of labor making it is necessary to adapt the legislation so that labor guarantees are present in all forms of work, and thus ensuring open precedents for decisions to be made in which the usual labor guarantees were not properly preserved for their workers. The article exposes the evolution of work and its guarantees in its home office modalities, in view of the Provisional Measure – MP No. 1108/22 where new rules for telework and its applications were added. and adapting to the future of work for all situations to be presented in society. This is because telework, until the effects of the pandemic did not have its well-defined guarantees and we still have gaps in these guarantees to be filled by a de facto effective legislation for this, and with this.