Evolução do contrato de trabalho no Brasil

Abstract

The present work describes the evolution of employment contracts in Brazil. Therefore, it seeks the origin and concept of Law, its didactics divisions, and its doctrinaire and jurisprudential divergences. Later, it goes through the specific characteristics of Labor Law and its changes throughout time, once the employment contract is a contractual modality that depends on its material body. The employment contract rules the formal labor relations within the country, being, in a strict sense, the tacit or explicit pact established in a working relation – configured by a personal nature, not eventuality nor continuity, subordination, and costs or remuneration. Moreover, there are a number of diverse types of employment contracts, such as: for unlimited and limited period of time; the latter divided into temporary employment contract, professional athlete contract, artist employment contract etc. The developing of Labor Law and employment contract is firmly related to social changes and, thereby, its evolution is fast and constant, trying to keep up with the social needs