abstract
Based on the analysis of IBGE data on the labor market before and during the pandemic, as well as on relevant literature, this article contemplates three dimensions: (i) a brief overview of the context of the economic and employment crisis, of the changes that resulted in the 2017 labor reform and of labor market indicators in the period prior to the health crisis; (ii) labor market indicators in the context of the pandemic, which signal impacts on labor; (iii) the challenges imposed on labor unions resulting from the intensification of the neoliberal agenda of the last four years. The article shows that the health crisis caused by Sars-CoV-2 has increased the fragility of the labor market, which had already been in a process of deterioration in the last four years in Brazil. It hit the working class of various economic sectors in striking and diverse manners, and unevenly in the different regions of Brazil.
keywords:
Covid-19; Labor market; Labor reform