THE DIGITAL WORK ENVIRONMENT AND WORKERS’ HEALTH

Abstract

With the spread of the home office, it is necessary to identify in which aspect the concept of work environment encompasses this type of service provision, in order to identify which constitutional and legal norms that regulate the environment can be applied. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the equivalence of face-to-face work and telework, identifying workers’ health as an environmental good, based on the characteristics of a common use good of the people and an essential good for a healthy quality of life, in order to assign to the employer the responsibility for taking the necessary measures to reduce environmental risks. This responsibility of the employer can be extracted from the protection norms, including the provisions of arts. 1, 3, 7, XXII, 170, 196 and 225 of the Constitution, Law no. 6.938/81, art. 19, § 1 and § 3 of Law no. 8.213/90, and Chapter V of the CLT. The hypothetical-deductive method was primarily adopted, with qualitative research.