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What is Unemployment insurance (seguro-desemprego)?
Also: seguro-desemprego · unemployment insurance · unemployment benefit
Unemployment insurance is the benefit paid to a worker dismissed without cause. In litigation, the dispute is over the substitute indemnity: when the employer fails to hand over the forms (or records the departure so as to bar the benefit), it answers for the amount the worker did not receive (Súmula 389 of the TST).
The defense is documentary: the delivery of the forms and the form of termination.
Observed grant pattern: about 76% of merits decisions on this award (base: real Labor Court cases).
How LABORIS AI uses it
LABORIS AI checks the delivery of the forms and the termination type, flagging the risk when the documentation does not add up.
Legal basis
Lei 7.998/1990CF, art. 7º, IISúmula 389 do TST
Informational content — it is not legal advice.