Equipped with scientific courage and audacity, the author proposes a deconstruction of the principle of prohibition of retrogression - which should not be an absolute principle, since Law is not a science that deals with the absolute as a rule - in order to place it in its proper place by reducing it to the meaning that is proper to it on the scale of values of labor law institutions. Thus, to the extent of the practical ineffectiveness, she bridges to juridical rationality to highlight the dogmatic incongruence underlying the aforementioned principle.

Salary Reductibility and Prohibition of Retrogression

The recourse to disregard of legal personality must be moderate as a mobile pendulum so that it becomes a truly credible, rational, and fair resource of the socio-economic model, acting as a mitigator of systemic deviations and an inducer of confidence in economic operation, but with transparent, analytically determinable, and formally expressed criteria, dispensing with the ambiguity that arbitrariness can cause. If so, instead of generating the annihilation of legal personality, this recourse will enhance the collective institute, through the pursuit only of lawful social purposes, preventing the misuse of corporate figures.

Disregard of Legal Personality in the Limited Liability Company

As a Fundamental Right, remunerative guarantee is a trump against political majority and, thus, acts as an armor against interventions that affect the degree of realization underlying it, since legislative realizations decrease the degree of abstraction and generality of the norm and increase the judge's control margin in the face of a restriction, through the integration of the content carried out with the fundamental guarantee.

Margins of the Judge in the Face of Restrictions on the Fundamental Right to Remuneration

Notwithstanding the personal nature and importance of this element in the individual labor situation, since work does not exist, there are people who work, work is, from the economic standpoint of companies, a factor of production that must be attractive so that it can be sought after. This does not mean that work can be pursued at all costs in the logic of absolute optimization of competitiveness and employability, but rather that in any economic situation it should always assume a captive place.

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