Colisão de direitos fundamentais e aplicação do princípio da proporcionalidade nas relações de trabalho

Abstract

The employment relationships are formed by two subjects, on the one hand the employer, which through the directive power has the right to direct, organize, supervise the installment of the service of the employee; of another, the employee, legally subordinate to the employer. However, the directive power of the employer is not absolute, but it is limited by the presence of the fundamental rights of the employee (eg fundamental right to privacy, non-discrimination), which have effectively in the sphere of labour relations. Thus, the study has as its object the collision of fundamental rights in the employment relations between the directive power of the employer and the fundamental rights of the employee. In the case of collision of these rights the solutions presented in individual cases must always seek to harmonise the areas of tension between the constitutional requirements to achieve, trying to maintain the unity of the Constitution. This way, in these situations the interpreter / applicator of the right uses the method of the balance of goods and the principle of proportionality and its subprinciples, as a means of interpretation, application and as a way of balance in situations of tension and conflict between constitutionally protected rights, which by constitutional rules that they do not have hierarchy between them, as noted in the study topic held in some decisions of the Superior Labour Court on collision of fundamental rights and directive power.