THE RECONFIGURATION OF LABOR LAW IN BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS OF LEGISLATIVE CHANGES FROM 2015 TO 2025
Name: LEANDRO LUCAS FACCIN
Publication date: 26/02/2026
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ANA PAULA FREGNANI COLOMBI | Presidente |
| GUSTAVO SEFERIAN SCHEFFER MACHADO | Examinador Externo |
| RAFAEL MORAES | Examinador Interno |
Summary: This study examines changes in Brazilian labor legislation between 2015 and 2025, with a focus on the Labor Reform
(Laws No. 13,429/2017 and No. 13,467/2017) and the Economic Freedom Law (Law No. 13,874/2019), aiming to understand how these legal reforms seek to reconfigure the role of Labor Law within the context of Brazilian neoliberal capitalism. The research is based on an bibliographical review addressing the formation of labor legislation in the twentieth century, with particular attention to the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT), highlighting its advances, limitations, and internal contradictions. Subsequently, the study identifies key processes of labor law flexibilization from 1964 to 2015, situating the strengthening of this trend from the 1990s onward and its persistence even under progressive governments. Finally, it systematizes the
legislative changes enacted between 2015 and 2025, analyzing the aforementioned laws in detail. The study argues that the reforms implemented over the last decade have produced a qualitative inflection in Brazilian Labor Law, characterized by the replacement of a protective logic with a contractual one, the weakening of labor institutions, and the expansion of
atypical forms of employment, such as unrestricted outsourcing and the misclassification of workers as independent contractors.
