A “invisibilidade social” dos trabalhadores terceirizados no serviço público: um estudo com foco nos serventes de limpeza

Abstract

This study seeks to reflect on outsourced work in the Public Service of Minas Gerais. The objective is to understand the implications of this form of work management in the public sphere for outsourced cleaning servants. In this sense, outsourcing is considered to be a non-bilateral employment relationship, as it admits a triangular employment relationship without a direct link with the borrowing company, in this case, the Public Administration. Outsourcing appears as a result of the restructuring process of the State apparatus from the 1990s onwards and becomes a strategy for reducing the costs of the public machine with the delegation of non-exclusive activities to the State's direct Administration. It is understood that this process has resulted in a serious maladjustment and weakening of labor relations, exposing outsourced workers to an unequal regime in relation to permanent workers, and has affected, above all, the way in which these workers recognize themselves or do not recognize themselves by through your practice. In this sense, the lack of recognition within a daily and collective work practice can lead to suffering at work and social invisibility. It is inferred that the precariousness of working conditions imposed by this way of hiring contributes to keeping these professionals in this zone of social invisibility. Therefore, we opted for a qualitative methodology, with theoretical and methodological foundations of the phenomenological approach, focusing for this research on outsourced workers in the cleaning sector, located on the campus of Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros/Hospital Universitário Clemente Faria. Thus, the phenomenological perspective allows an analysis of the unseen and considers the subjective experiences of these subjects made invisible in their world lived and shared among themselves, as well as the meanings they attribute to their work-related experiences.