Pejotização and implications for nursing work in Brazil: repercussions of neoliberalism

OBJECTIVE: To analyze pejotização in the context of nursing work and the respective implications for the protection and health of these professionals. METHOD: Documentary study, which had news, resolutions, and recommendations issued by the Federal Nursing Council and the Regional Nursing Councils as data collection source, which underwent lexical analysis, based on data processing using the software Iramuteq. RESULTS: Six news items were captured for analysis. The similitude analysis was built with 40 active forms and six discussion centers were generated, with the most expressive lexicons in each of these being outsourcing, economic, pejotização, deputy, Federal Nursing Council, Bill of Law. CONCLUSION: In the quest to increase capital based on neoliberal ideas, strategies are produced that put the workers’ and users’ health and safety at risk. Pejotização leads to loss of labor rights, as it deprives the worker of consolidated labor achievements, such as the 13th salary, paid vacations, sick leave and, above all, insecurities are generated in relation to the future, with few guarantees, causing negative impacts on these workers’ health.