{"id":119,"date":"2017-04-07T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-04-27T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T16:35:40","slug":"outsourcing-and-precariousness-of-work-in-the-social-assistance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanas.blog.scielo.org\/en\/2017\/04\/07\/outsourcing-and-precariousness-of-work-in-the-social-assistance-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing and precariousness of work in the social assistance policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mariana Prioli Cordeiro e Leny Sato, professoras do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), S\u00e3o Paulo, SP, Brazil<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"estpsi_logo\"Researchers from Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo (S\u00e3o Paulo University) recently published at Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) a paper on the working conditions at Sistema \u00danico de Assist\u00eancia Social (SUAS, Unified System for Social Assistance). After interviewing psychologists who work at social services, they concluded that the \u201coutsourcing\u201d of SUAS, a usual process in many Brazilian cities \u2013 prefectures of many Brazilian municipalities delegate the hiring of professional to private organizations, justifying it by legal and fiscal impediments to realize public tenders. This process contributes to the precariousness of the work conditions in that public policy, affecting both the quality of the service offered and the workers\u2019 health. After all, that process is often characterized by temporary contracts, high turnover rates, late payment of salaries, dismissal of large groups of employees, lack of supervision and lack of continuing education.<\/p>\n

Due to this precariousness of work conditions and the necessity of an intense emotional involvement, many psychologists think that working at the social assistance policy is only a possibility of having a first job, like a kind of \u201cbridge\u201d to a better job.<\/p>\n

To reach those conclusions, the researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with psychologists hired by private organizations to work at SUAS public services, located in three states of the Southeast region (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais), that offer both basic and special protection services.<\/p>\n

Besides discussing the interviews with psychologists, the researchers problematized the most common terms used to talk about those private organizations that offer public services, such as \u201cnon-governmental organizations\u201d, \u201cnon-profit organizations\u201d, \u201csocial organizations\u201d and \u201coutsourcing public-sector organizations\u201d.<\/p>\n

This research was supported by Funda\u00e7\u00e3o de Amparo \u00e0 Pesquisa do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo (Fapesp) and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient\u00edfico e Tecnol\u00f3gico (CNPq).<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n

CORDEIRO, M. P.\u00a0 and\u00a0 SATO, L. Psicologia na pol\u00edtica de assist\u00eancia social: trabalho em um “setor terceirizado”. Estud. psicol. (Campinas)<\/em> [online]. 2017, vol.34, n.1, pp.41-52, ISSN 1982-0275 [viewed 27 March 2017]. DOI: 10.1590\/1982-02752017000100005<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/92cmbv<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

External Link<\/h3>\n

Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) – ESTPSI – www.scielo.br\/estpsi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This paper presents the work conditions of psychologists hired by private organizations to work at the Sistema \u00danico de Assist\u00eancia Social (Unified System for Social Assistance). Among other things, it concludes that this \u201coutsourcing\u201d process has been allowing temporary contracts, high turnover rates, late payment of salaries, dismissal of large groups of employees and lack of continuing education, which impacts the health of the workers and the quality of the services offered. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[96,7],"tags":[97,145],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-estpsi","category-press-release","tag-estudos-de-psicologia-campinas","tag-psychology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t