Moral Harassment in the Internship Workplace, an Affront to the Legal Order

The book deals with some aspects and implications of moral harassment of trainees in the organisational environment, in the light of labour law, taking the Consolidation of Labour Laws, specifically the articles, sections and paragraphs that deal with the subject, in order to bring to the surface the discussion about the degrading behaviour that trainees suffer within companies. We have the CLT and Law 13.467/17 as the guarantors of such relationships. The Labour Reform and the CLT deal with moral harassment in employment relationships, but not in internships. It is worth pointing out that an internship is a supervised educational act, in the workplace, to prepare students in higher education for productive work. In the labour relationship, the granting company has a civil liability, since it has undertaken to protect the trainee and its failure to do so violates Article 932(III) of the Civil Code, as well as Article 5(V) and (X) of the Federal Constitution. Finally, it is imperative to point out that moral harassment not only exists in employment relationships, but is entrenched in serious consequences for professional life.