THE CONTROL OF THE WORKING HOURS OF THE HOME OFFICE PROFESSIONAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The present scientific work deals with the necessary observation of the control of workers' working hours in the domestic environment where they carry out their work activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, so that the productive burdens linked to production costs, as well as mass productivity during such a pandemic moment, fell solely on employees. Thus, it is important to study the theme to answer the question of how the home office would occur in a legally foreseen way, in compliance with the principles and rules of Labor Law, during the imperative isolation caused by the pandemic in the years 2020 to mid-2022, as well as the analysis of how the Telework institute is in contemporaneity. . Thus, in a generic way, the present research will seek to analyze the working hours with CLT limitation even in the environment outside the business establishment. In addition, in a more punctual way, the work in question seeks to elucidate the limitation of the working day in the Federal Constitution, to study the changes brought about by Law No. 13,467 of 2017 (Labor Reform) about telework, as well as to list possible challenging situations in the control of the working day during the covid-19 pandemic. To develop the present work, bibliographic and documentary research and the deductive method were used, starting from general premises to more specific ones, taking as final conclusions the elements that characterize the limitation of the working day during the pandemic moment in question, seeking solutions for contemporaneity.