THE APPROPRIATION OF THE CONCEPT OF CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY PRESENT IN THE PLC 12/2024 AND THE RISK OF TRIVIALISING VIOLENCE IN LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRY 4.0

Abstract

This is a critical study of the Complementary Bill number 12/2024 launched by the Lula - Alckimin government, with the aim of establishing a category of workers intermediated by companies - platforms. The legislative project offers a concept, obligations for workers and companies, as well as establishing parameters for calculating working hours, wages and the payment of social security contributions. Among the suggested concepts, it is proposed that companies adopt principles such as transparency, reducing the risks inherent in work, eliminating all forms of discrimination, violence and harassment at work, and eliminating work analogous to slavery. In this way, taking into account the contradictions between the legislative proposal and the various studies that have already been published, which go beyond the need to conceptualise drivers as employees or self-employed, this study will focus on pointing out the perversity of the legislative proposal to extend the eradication of slave labour in principle, especially in jobs forged in the era of Industry 4.0, of which Uberisation stands out as the greatest exponent. We hope to conclude that the concept of slavery is sovereign, indicating the risks of reducing it to a principle in order to trivialise violence in labour relations.