A (In)compatibilidade entre o direito fundamental ao trabalho e a possibilidade de extinção contratual sem motivação

Abstract

Rights of second dimension, especially workers' rights, have been won over the years through relentless and repeated struggles of the working class. These rights were slowly being constitutionalised and today are enshrined as fundamental rights in the Federal Constitution of the Republic. The right of access to work constitutes an instrument for the realization of the principle of the dignity of the human person, which underlies the entire legal system. The Federal Constitution of 1988 listed the principle of the dignity of the human person, the social values of work and free initiative among the foundations of the Republic, which denotes its importance. Dignity, under this analysis, can not be realized without the recognition of work and its social value. The free initiative, in turn, is only properly exercised, according to the social function sought, when observed the dignity of the human person and when in accordance with the social value of work. Work is fundamental to ensure the material conditions of the living of the worker himself, his family and the entire community to which the production of goods and services resulting from human labor is addressed. Thus, labor contracts must be based on the protection and continuity of labor relations in order to effectively achieve their social function. In this context, disruption of the employment contract by means of arbitrary or unjustified dismissal is completely incompatible with the fundamental constitutional right to work, which is why the employer's executive power must be limited so that unilateral dismissals can only be effected through Justification plausible for both.