O impacto gerado pela pandemia da Covid-19 no assédio moral laboral

Abstract

This work addressed the logic of bullying suffering the impact brought by the pandemic of corona virus. Initially, the emergence of the pandemic was addressed, as the virus evolved over the months, the symptoms, the measures that were necessary to combat and prevent it, such as the use of masks, hand hygiene and, mainly, social isolation. Thus, there were many reflexes that this new scenario brought to Brazil. Conceptual aspects of bullying and its consequences were seen in the life of the victim and in the organization where this unhealthy habit exists. Social isolation, adopted as a method of disease prevention, brought the need for changes in the work environment, mainly with the increase of activities in the home office, where offenses started to occur in new ways. In this new social context, legislative innovations were created, such as Law No. 14,010, of June 10, 2020 and Provisional Measure No. 936, of April 1, 2020, which were also the subject of the present study. Moral harassment is not classified as a crime in the Brazilian Penal Code, but there are provisions that punish such conduct in other state and municipal laws and in the CLT itself. The pandemic also brought economic impacts, such as the increase in unemployment rates, increased tension in the work environment and the existing submission in the vertical relationship, between employer and worker. Another aspect addressed was the existence of goal policies in companies, which often do not produce healthy results. Thus, the layoffs led to an increase in these goals, since the number of employees was reduced, bringing an overload of work for those who remained in employment. All these changes in the worker's routine ended up aggravating and increasing the occurrence of moral harassment and, consequently, of occupational diseases, such as the Burnout Syndrome, which is the individual's mental and physical exhaustion. The research showed that the changes caused by the pandemic directly influenced the occurrence of moral harassment, both by the increase in cases and the emergence of new ways of its practice.