THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE LABOR MARKETS: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE LABOR MARKET IN SANTA CRUZ DO SUL (RS).

Abstract

The article analyzes the dynamics of the labor market in Santa Cruz do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul, based on the confirmation of the first cases of Coronavirus in Brazil and the first government actions aimed at facing the crisis resulting from the Pandemic. It is argued, in the article, that for people who live from work the experience of the pandemic has intensified the precariousness of work already experienced previously. In this sense, it is highlighted that, in the context of the repercussions of the Pandemic on the labor markets, there was a decrease in the capacity to offer formal jobs and, at the same time, the government actions adopted with the objective of "protecting jobs" they did not prevent the dismissals of the workers. What is announced in the face of this reality, in a context of economic crisis and policies of “flexibilization of work”, are even more deregulated labor markets, not only with the reduction of formal employability relations, but also with the increase of jobs. precarious workers.