COVID-19 AS AN OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE: AN ANALYSIS OF LABOR LAWS

Abstract

The work presents general measures on the general context of COVID-19, while Brazil and what legal measures were adopted. We relate COVID-19 as an occupational disease, due to the fact that the worker can be accidental or become ill due to common (everyday) causes or due to work, even though the disease is not characterized as endemic diseases by Law n° 8.312/1991. as an occupational disease. From a bibliographic survey of the Provisional Measures (MPs) there was an attempt to medically characterize COVID-19 as an occupational disease, in 2020, from the presentation of the Causal Nexus (NC), deliberated by an expert. No, as MP they have a validity of 10 days, being pro of the same period, however 60 considerably valid after that period. It is important that workers are mainly affected by the period of the proprietary virus without exercising the rights of their benefit guarantee activities and that they do not lose their employment relationship during the period in which it is necessary to maintain the quarantine in isolation.