The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Luis Roberto Barroso and the President of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), defended this Tuesday (6th) the need for a source of funds to enable the law that established minimum remuneration for nurses and nursing assistants and technicians.
The two met for about an hour in the office of Barroso, who is the rapporteur in the Supreme Court of the action that suspended the law. The meeting was closed.
In a note released after the meeting, the Supreme Court reported that both seek to provide a solution for the implementation of the national nursing floor after the minister’s decision.
The two defend the importance of the need for the floor, but “agreed with the need for a perennial source of funds to make salaries at a minimum level.”
“Three points were put as possibilities: the correction of the SUS table; the exemption of the sector’s payroll; and the compensation of the debt of the states with the Union”, says the note.
The two pledged to continue the work in search of consensus. Barroso’s decision will be analyzed in a virtual plenary session of the STF that begins next Friday (9).
The virtual trial, on a platform where ministers cast their votes, will last a week and may be interrupted if any member of the Supreme Court asks to analyze the case in the physical plenary.
It can also be interrupted in the case of a minister’s request for a view, which would paralyze the issue.
Barroso suspended last Sunday (4) the national salary floor for nursing.
The magistrate determined the suspension “until it is clarified” the financial impact of the measure for states and municipalities and for hospitals.
The norm set the minimum wage of R$ 4,750 for nurses. Nursing technicians must receive 70% of this amount, and nursing assistants and midwives, 50%.
Barroso gave 60 days for the federation entities, sector entities and the Ministries of Labor and Health to express themselves on the capacity for the floor to be met. “The precautionary measure will remain in force until the matter is reconsidered in the light of the clarifications provided”, he decided.
The law was passed by Congress after great pressure from the category. President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) signed into law the legislation, which is now suspended, on August 4.
The decision was given in a lawsuit filed by the National Confederation of Health, Hospitals and Establishments and Services. The minister said that the entity presented “plausible allegations” of possible “mass layoffs” with the new law.
“Although there is still no official data on layoffs in the sector, given that the law has not even completed its first month of validity, the representative entities of the sector are unanimous in stating that the dismissal of employees will be necessary to balance the costs”, stated.
According to the magistrate, “the forecast seems to be consistent with the impact estimated by the Chamber of Deputies for the private hospital sector, which is R$ 10.5 billion, considering for-profit and non-profit entities”.
In addition, he also cited possible “damage to the maintenance of the supply of beds and other hospital services, including in the SUS (Unified Health System).”
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