The ongoing labor reforms in Brazil and France are the theme of the international seminar taking place at Unicamp until Thursday (31). The event is the result of a scientific cooperation agreement between the two countries supported by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, and by the French Committee for the Assessment of University Cooperation with Brazil (Cofecub). Issues of gender, health and public management were addressed at the opening table, held this Tuesday (29), in the Zeferino Vaz auditorium of the Institute of Economics (IE). Present were the dean of Postgraduate Studies, André Furtado, the associate director of the Institute of Economics, André Biancareli and the director of the Faculty of Education, Dirce Pacheco and Zan.
"ItAlthough they are different social formations, there are many similarities when observing the deregulation of labor relations in France and Brazil”, said event coordinator Aparecida Neri de Souza. According to her, the coordination between researchers, made possible by the Seminar and the cooperation agreement as a whole, will provide an understanding of the process underway in both countries. “Our mission is to build knowledge about these changes and intervene in the formulation of policies”, she points out.
According to Neri, andWhile in Brazil almost half of the population never had a salaried employment contract, in France the wage society was established. “In the French case, the deprivation of rights belongs to those who already had them. In the case of Brazil, a huge portion of the population did not have any rights linked to work. What little there was is being undone. The process of precariousness here is much greater,” he explained.
The loss of labor rights among teachers in the State of São Paulo was the subject of professor at the Faculty of Education (FE) at Unicamp Selma Venco. Presenting results of research carried out since 2010, she concluded that the uberization of teachers is not something new. The term refers to the system of hiring teachers for individual classes without employment, whose implementation in public education has been discussed in the country. According to Venco, the almost total absence of competitions in recent years has led to a predominance of temporary hiring in public education in the State. “As early as 1999, public education in the State was carried out by non-gazetted teachers, who did not have labor rights”, found from the numbers collected.
Régine Bercot, from the Paris Sociology and Politics Research Center (Cresppa), addressed, in turn, gender relations and discomfort at work. “There is a sexist torment that needs to be faced” she said. According to the researcher, it is necessary to investigate the discomfort experienced by women at work, which remains invisible. “Many women experience difficult situations at work. We don't know the consequences, because they don't talk about it. And if they speak out they are criticized. There is a normalization of suffering that needs to be analyzed”, she emphasizes.
