Collective moral damage in employment relationships: the legal perspective of its characterization and recovery

Abstract

this paper addresses the collective moral damage in employment relationships within the Brazilian legal context and dialogues with the collective, diffused and individual homogeneous rights and interests of employees. Furthermore, this study analyzes the new workings of this system with the advent of globalization, in addition to examining the basic components of moral damage and imbricating them to the particularities of collective damage. therefore, the object of this study is to understand the features, impacts, and the results of the collective moral damage in employment relationships. this research is also a critical analysis of the institute, is based on doctrinaire thesis and case-law standings, which has the finality of interacting with the labor reality, and analyzes expositional examples and remarkable decisions. Finally, this research proposes some practical measures to mitigate the wounds afflicted by the collective moral damage in the labor area; consequently, administrative methods can prevent the judicial alternative; and the deductive and bibliography method in related fields helped compose this multidisciplinary study.