Direito à intimidade do empregado e o poder de direção do empregador: abrangência e limites

Abstract

The research developed in the context of the employment relations and deals with the limits and scope of the right to intimacy and privacy of the employee and the employer’s power of direction. That as a fundamental right guaranteed by the Brazilian Constitution to all citizens, and this as a mechanism essential for the development of management activities under a contract of employment, such as hiring, supervising, establish regulations, punish, among others. The first features based on the art. 5, X of the Constitution of 1988-CF/1988, and second, in art 2 of the Consolidation of Labor Laws – CLT. The subject is relevant, mainly by finding limits to the employer’s direction, imposed by duty to respect the fundamental rights to employee. Another sort, this also has limitations on the existence of such rights in the course of their work activities due to the character of subordination inherent in the employment contract. The present study makes an analysis of principles and fundamentals of the rights in question, with the final guidelines on the composition of possible conflicts concerning the proposed topic.