Moral harassment and labor reform: interview with Margarida Barreto

Abstract

Professor Margarida Barreto has a PhD and teaches at the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa (Santa Casa School of Medical Sciences) São Paulo. The interviewee is one of the pioneers of the study on moral harassment at work. In this interview, Margarida Barreto explains what is moral harassment, how to recognize it, and how the labor reform (Brazilian Law 13429/2017 and Law 13467/2017) may aggravate the problem by enabling a context that favors moral harassment and other harm to workers’ health, especially the challenges posed to workers’ unions.

Keywords

• assedio moral no trabalho
• reforma trabalhista
• saúde do trabalhador e sindicato de trabalhadores