The deconstruction of labor guarantees in security and health with the 2017 Labor Reform

Abstract

Security and health are essential requirements for decent and sustainable work to occur. This paper aims at analyzing the deregulation of these requirements, considering the developments of the severe economic and political crisis that resulted in the expansion of outsourcing, and in the Labor Reform, both from 2017. These changes are aligned with a neoliberal agenda focused on job insecurity, including security and health. They also bring odd, and sometimes conflicting, principles and concepts to labor protection in the current normative structure of a country that still maims, sickens, and kills thousands of workers.