A uberização do trabalho sob a ótica internacional: a negligência da Organização Mundial do Comércio e da Organização Internacional do Trabalho

Abstract

This work aims to study the possibility of regulating the activities of application companies, which configured the process of "uberization of work", in which the rise of digital platforms, whose main objective is to connect service providers and demanding customers, has solidified the outsourcing of work and deepened labor exploitation. Therefore, it is assumed that social dumping, characterized by the removal of labor rights to increase the entrepreneur's profit margin, is a primordial characteristic of the phenomenon. In this way, a historical analysis of the debate on labor issues within the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) will be carried out, in which this position was defined and granted to the latter. Therefore, following the hypothetical-deductive method of approach and the descriptive-explanatory method of objective analysis, and using bibliographic and documental procedural techniques, it is concluded that cooperation between them would be the best way to combat working conditions platform workers, insofar as the WTO, on the one hand, could legitimize economic sanctions to application companies that violate minimum labor rights and, on the other, the ILO could exercise its regulation in the domesticity of countries through the elaboration of a Convention or a Recommendation.