Principais impactos da atividade mineradora no Estado do Pará: o caso da Companhia Brasileira de Bauxita – CBB/USPAM

Abstract

The laboursassociatedwith mining, storage, processing, andtransportof ore, are carried out indangerousandinsalubriousareas. Most of the tragedies and environmental damage, that have social repercussions in the field of Labour Law, are triggered by human error. These activities have great and irreversible social and environmental impacts in the region, state, country and even in the world. This body of work intends to elaborate a brief exposition of the activities that are carried out in those conditions and the dangers that are always present, in a way which takes into consideration the responsibilities in the protection of means and labour relevant to the development and follow-up of such activities, without exhausting the theme as it is extensive. Some fields of Law, such as, Constitutional, Administrative, Civil, Social Security, Insurance and even Criminal, have obtained some improvements from companies, particularly, mining companies that employ around 1 million and 100 thousand workers, throughout the country, according to the Ministry of Mining and Energy’s National Plan of Minerals. It is known that the political, financial, and economic crisis remain difficult to be solved in a short amount of time and are now aggravated because of the global pandemic of Covid-19.