The purpose of this text is to discuss the job guarantee program as a State policy, seeking to carry out not only a conceptual treatment but also a brief evaluation of some international experiences of this inititive. The program seeks to guarantee the full employment of labor and, in this way, can be understood as a great automatic stabilizer of economic cycles. Regarding the international experiences of the program, the text briefly explores the American cases (with the New-Deal), Indian and Argentinean cases, and then approaches ways for its implementation in the Brazilian labor market, taking into account the context of high rate of population unemployment.