Pejotização e significado do trabalho no contexto da Lei do Salão Parceiro

Abstract

Since 2016, beauty salon workers have been experiencing changes in the contractual conditions of work due to the approval of Lei do Salão Parceiro, which authorized the partnership agreement between salon and professional. The requirement is that the professional has to be characterized as a company, owner of CNPJ, and the legal figure of the Individual Microentrepreneur (MEI) has been the most common choice. This process, however, authorized the masking of employment relationships and, in addition, workers who were previously employed also passed to the new type of partnership contract, characterizing the process of pejotização (becoming na enterprise). Therefore, the objective of this thesis was to explore changes that has been experienced by salon workers in this scenario of sector's regulatory modification and the meanings that they attribute to work in this context. For that, I conducted a field research with manicures and hairdressers in Belo Horizonte, conducting semi-structured interviews and applying structured questionnaires, which was the Inventário do Significado do Trabalho, questions about work centrality and about socio-demographic aspects. The results, organized in two articles, indicated discrepancies between the discourse presented in the history of law proposition and the one presented by the workers, opposing the ideas of autonomy gain and MEI by submission. Regarding the meanings of work, the employees, supported by the labor laws, perceived with greater intensity the work as responsibility and as a way of being socially included, besides greater proportionality in the social and financial retribution. The results also indicated that manicures experience characteristics of brutalization, discrimination and demand with greater intensity.