Análise crítica acerca da capacidade para enfrentamento de momentos excepcionais da Legislação Trabalhista Brasileira

Abstract

This article seeks to analyze the Brazilian labor legislation in force at the time the covid-19 pandemic began, to find out if it provided subsidies for facing the consequences caused by the virus in labor relations, in the face of the serious context of economic crisis. Likewise, it seeks to briefly examine some emergency measures adopted by the Federal Government to contain the impacts of the virus on the economy, as well as critically analyze whether these were necessary. The sources of the methodology used were research on doctrine, scientific articles, legislation and Brazilian jurisprudence. The conclusion of the study is that Brazil does not have effective and structuring legislation for exceptional moments, always resorting to case-by-case measures, in the way that occurred in the treatment of the pandemic.