A atuação do Ministério Público do Trabalho da Paraíba junto ao trabalho infantil

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to show the work of the Paraíba Public Labor Ministry in the fight against child labor, with regard to the defense of the right to education, health, leisure and family coexistence - raised to the fundamental right status of children and adolescents by the constitution of 1988, and the constituent legislator conceived the right to not work before the minimum age fixed as a fundamental social right, in art. 7th, XXXIII. In this circumstance, having an emergent application, the device should seek its maximum effectiveness, hence not be contrary to the reserve of the possible and the budgetary limitation as an obstacle to its effectiveness. The State must guarantee every human being, and much more in the case of combating child labor, which concerns the developing person, full protection, which is conferred by law and, being intrinsically linked to human dignity. Faced with a situation of poverty, children and adolescents are forced to work. Children are forced to take responsibility at home or end up going themselves to seek supplementation of family income. It is necessary that public authorities invest in education, health, income generation, housing, basic sanitation among others, so that at least reduce the number of children and adolescents living in a precarious and insufficient way. The issue of child labor is related to the unrelated family and no structure for work, which is a very complex case. In spite of the prohibitive normalization, the index of child labor is still high, being fundamental the adoption of public policies that aim at its eradication. In this respect, the work of society and the Public Labor Ministry is paramount.