Em busca do teletrabalho decente: uma abordagem interdisciplinar

Abstract

Understanding the (im)possibility of building decent teleworking and its practical urgency within an interdisciplinary approach consists of the discussion of this thesis, which will be developed using the reflective dialectical method. The topic is innovative insofar as, despite there being studies dedicated to the search for understanding decent work, new challenges, which call such constructions into question or require their re-reading, are presented in the reality of remote work and require specific attention, given all the differences that characterize them. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary approach to teleworking, far beyond the legal world, establishing firm connections with sociology, philosophy and human rights, attracts an innovative perspective of approach and launches a new perspective for the reading of what can be considered as decent in a non-utopian reality. The relevance of the research is justified by the increase in the number of people working remotely, especially in the post-pandemic world of Covid-19, with the need to ensure that these workers are protected against health and safety risks at work, and have access to fair and safe conditions for the construction of a world in which universal peace is not unrealizable and Social Justice sets the tone for the journey towards its achievement. To achieve depth in the investigation, research was carried out from the linguistic etymology of the term to axiology in a philosophical perspective. Next, the perspective of decent work in democracy in a world of teleworkers was analyzed, to understand the differences between decent and decent work. Another highlight was the debate on the justiciability of Social Rights and the relevant role of international organizations in this process, with emphasis on the Inter-American Court of Rights and the International Labor Organization. World 4.0 and teleworking brings the reality of the norm for the effective lives of these workers, including the environment, union framework and civil liability, always keeping an eye on the changes experienced with the Covid-19 pandemic to build the future. The fundamental right to decent teleworking is the final hypothesis of the research and investigates the invisibility of this type of work, modern slavery, the right to disconnection, a decent working environment and the essentiality of collective rights in the process of achieving these ideals. Thus, all the hypotheses explored involve the possibility of building a decent telework, which, unlike a dignified one, allows gradations in its achievement, so that it appears real and concrete, reaching evels of more or less decency, and not of absolute existence or non-existence, along with the impossibility of decent teleworking, being relegated to its conceptualization as dignified, an inflexible term that is presented in its entirety or, simply, is absent. In this last hypothesis investigated, a pessimistic tone of devaluation of gradual advances remains until dignity is fully achieved, notoriously utopian in an empirically experienced 4.0 reality, while the first hypothesis attracts an optimistic and constructive perspective in a civilizing sense of teleworking as a reality already widely experienced.