Abstract
To identify the contribution of all the dimensions involved in job insecurity among nursing professionals in Brazilian state public hospitals. This was a quantitative descriptive study conducted between March 2015 and February 2016, with nurses, nursing technicians and nursing aides. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis. The sample consisted of 265 nurses (n=161 with job security and n=104 outsourced) and 810 nursing technicians and nursing aides (n=597 with job security and n=213 outsourced). Among the nurses, "Working conditions" accounted for 46.8% of their job insecurity. Among nursing technicians and nursing aides "intensity of work due to work process organization" best explained the construct of job insecurity (51.2%). Job insecurity is expressed differently depending on the type of nursing professional. The difference in the distribution of the dimensions showed that job insecurity is related to the hierarchical position of each nursing professional in the technical division of nursing work and the role of each professional in the work process.
Highlights
Job insecurity refers to a political regime based on the instability and permanent insecurity of workers, submitting them to further exploration
“Work conditions” is the dimension that most contributes to job insecurity (46.8%), while for nursing technicians and nursing aides, “Intensity of work due to work process organization” (51.2%)
The results indicate job insecurity in public health services and in nursing work; job insecurity was expressed differently by the nursing professionals
Summary
Job insecurity refers to a political regime based on the instability and permanent insecurity of workers, submitting them to further exploration. In Brazil, job insecurity among public servants was driven by changes resulting from the Reform of State Apparatus. During the administrations of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff 2002-2012 and 2012-2016, respectively, of the Worker’s Party (PT) changes were made to the pension regulations for these workers – their right to full retirement pay was eliminated, outsourcing was expanded, and wage policies went unchanged[5]. In 2017, the government alliance of President Michel Temer, who took over as President after a legal-parliamentary-media coup in 2016, increasing the impact on public servants and approving, in the Constitution and Justice Commission in October 2017, Bill 116, which regulates the dismissal of public servants by subjective criteria, and Temporary Decree 805/2017, which postponed or canceled the wage increase scheduled for 2018. Once again, public servants had an effect from the economic and political crisis in the country
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