This paper uses matched employer-employee data to investigate the credit channel as a relevant transmission channel of the 2008 financial crisis on the labor market in Brazil. I study the cross-sector impact on employment decisions of firms of the manufacturing industry. I use measures such as hiring and firing rates as outcomes. I find that the credit was an important transmission mechanism of the crises to the real economy. More specifically, I find that the firing rate is higher for more financially dependent industries during the crisis. Younger and less skilled workers were more adversely affected through the credit channel. I also find evience of reallocation of workers across sectors; less financially dependent sectors poached more workers from other sectors, and particularly so from smaller firms. I also find some evidence of reallocation within sector and across firm size intervals.