VDP: VIOLENCE AND HUMILIATION

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  • Roberto Heloani

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1676-4439.2018v17n1.41165

Abstract

In this article, we attempt to discuss the forms used in the cover-up of social relations that determine suicides at work. In the last decades, several cases of labor suicide occurred in our country in the banking sector. In Brazil, we had emblematic cases in the 1990s: a public bank, which had a culture of respect for labor rights and empathy for its employees, was subject of a broad restructuring process in which the main tool consisted of a VDP (Voluntary Dismissal Program). The management of the institution claimed that it needed to “modernize” and for that it was necessary, “to renew its staff”. For those resistant to stay in the institution, “motivational procedures” were adopted and “stimuli” used, such as reprimanding the employee in the presence of the “client friend”, curses, disqualification, isolation, etc. Thus, the article points to the need to know better the causes of suicides at work.

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Published

2018-08-01

How to Cite

Heloani, R. (2018). VDP: VIOLENCE AND HUMILIATION. Revista Da ABET, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1676-4439.2018v17n1.41165

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Dossiê: Trabalho no Brasil e na França.