While President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) promises salary increases to federal police, around 1 million active workers, retirees and pensioners have their pay frozen for five years.
The last installment of the increase for this group was granted on January 1, 2017.
They are servants of bodies such as Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency), IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), Ipea (Institute of Applied Economic Research), Funai (National Indian Foundation), Abin (Brazilian Intelligence Agency), in addition to careers in medical and social security.
The data was collected by the Ministry of Economy at the request of the leaf. The categories in this group had an average increase of 10.8%, split over two years (2016 and 2017).
Another 253,000 civil servants had the last adjustment applied on January 1, 2019. It was the fourth installment of an average total increase of 27.9%. It is in this second group that the Federal Police and the Federal Highway Police are located.
Together, the two corporations have 45,300 active and inactive employees, according to data from the Statistical Panel of Personnel of the Ministry of Economy.
The General Rapporteur for the Budget, Deputy Hugo Leal (PSD-RJ), ignored the request of Minister Paulo Guedes (Economy) to set aside R$ 2.5 billion for the concession of readjustments for police corporations. The request was in response to a determination by Bolsonaro.
Even so, the president remains determined to grant the blessing to these categories, which make up his support base.
Recently, police officers had been complaining that they did not receive benefits during the Bolsonaro government, unlike the military.
The differentiated treatment arouses the indignation of the deprecated categories, which are also those at the base of the salary pyramid.
“It is regrettable that they want to carry out this selectivity. We are not against the readjustment, but it is not fair that they do this for one sector and leave the others in limbo”, said Sérgio Ronaldo da Silva, general secretary of Condsef (Confederation of Workers in the Service Federal Public).
He highlighted that, from the beginning of 2017 to November 2021, inflation measured by the IPCA (Broad National Consumer Price Index) has already risen by 27.22%. Meanwhile, the categories didn’t have any kind of replacement.
“These are the careers with the lowest salary in public administration. [grupo] which is being the most penalized,” stated Silva.
In PF, an agent’s remuneration ranges from R$12,522.50 to R$18,651.79 per month. Delegates, in turn, earn from R$23,692.74 to R$30,936.91. In the PRF, maturities range from R$9,899.88 to R$16,552.34 per month.
The salary pyramid of the federal Executive, however, shows that 4.72% of active civil servants receive up to R$ 3,000 monthly. Another 23.54% earn between R$3,000 and R$6,000.
Among inactives, the proportion in these ranges is even higher. Altogether, four out of ten retirees from the Federal Executive receive up to R$6,000 per month.
Depen (National Penitentiary Department) agents are the only ones awarded by Bolsonaro who have been in the group with salaries frozen for a long time, since 2017. The category’s remuneration currently ranges from R$5,572.23 to R$10,357.30.
“If the reporter [do Orçamento] have to accept, that it is for everyone. Not selectively, as they are trying to do, segregating civil servants,” said the secretary of Condsef.
Leal’s refusal to include the expense of police readjustment in the budget was based on a technical note from congressional consultants.
The text pointed out as obstacles the inexistence of a bill in progress, as required by the LDO (Budget Guidelines Law), and the need to cancel other expenses to compensate for the extra expense.
The issue of the bill can be resolved more easily, in the assessment of technicians in the economic area. Compensation is considered more difficult because Congress allocated R$16.5 billion to the so-called rapporteur’s amendments and expanded the electoral fund to R$5.1 billion.
Rapporteur amendments are the instrument used to boost the resources that government allies can direct to their electoral strongholds. They became bargaining chips in political negotiations in Congress.
They are different from individual and bench tax amendments, which also add up to around R$ 16 billion, but are distributed proportionally among congressmen.
A meeting between members of the economic team and the CMO (Mixed Budget Commission) takes place this Monday afternoon (20) to try to find a solution to the impasse of readjustments.
Although he signed the official letter requesting the budget reserve for adjustments, Guedes was upset with the measure and said, on Friday (17), that he was against generalized increases.
“If everyone has these increases, it is a disgrace to future generations. Then inflation will return, we will plunge into a dark past, we will snowball into debt. Our role is to ensure that this does not happen,” said the minister.
Bolsonaro even promised a general correction in the salaries of federal employees.
“It would have [de ser reajuste de] 3%, 4%, 5%, 2%… Let it be 1%. This is the idea. Because we are completing three years in my government without readjustment. Now, the readjustment is not to recover all the inflation, because we don’t have space for that”, said the president in an interview to Gazeta do Povo newspaper, on the 8th.
However, so far the only category that has received a concrete nod from Bolsonaro has been that of the police.
While the readjustment for police corporations would cost BRL 2.5 billion in 2022, a linear increase would have an impact of BRL 3 billion for every 1% granted, according to internal government calculations.
Danielle Brant and Renato Machado collaborated
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