Inclusão das pessoas analfabetas como pessoas deficientes para fins do Art. 93 da Lei n. 8213, de 24 de julho de 1991

Abstract

The present monograph brings to discussion the main legislations on rights for impaired people, such as Recommendations and International Labor Organization Conventions and the Brazilian legislations in the constitutional and infra-constitutional levels. It discusses how impaired people are addressed and its evolution over the time on legislations. And it demonstrates, through official rates, that the number of impaired people in the country is large. It analyses the concept of impaired person, the impairments accepted by the article 19, Law 8213/1991 from the Ministry of Labor, and other disabilities been accepted by the justice as impairment, such as monocular vision and unilateral hearing loss. Companies are facing the necessity of hiring people with impairment, this work shows that there is a small number of impaired people for the workplace, what makes difficult for the companies to fill the number of positions required by the law. On the other hand, the rate of illiteracy is very high in Brazil. Not been able to handle written communication is a barrier faced by illiterate people daily, and for this reason, they can be considered as impaired people for the inclusion reserve law purposes