The strike by Central Bank servers indefinitely begins this Friday (1st) with possible impacts on Pix and other activities of the monetary authority.
According to Sinal (National Union of Central Bank Employees), the strike could partially interrupt the instant payment system and the distribution of coins and banknotes, as well as partially or totally suspend the dissemination of the Focus survey and various fees. financial.
In addition, it may affect the monitoring and maintenance of the SPB (Brazilian Payment System) and the Demab (Open Market Operations Department) trading desk. The union guarantees that the essential services law will be respected by servers.
In a note, the BC said it had contingency plans to “keep the functioning of critical systems for the population, markets and the operations of regulated institutions, such as STR [Sistema de Transferência de Reservas]Pix, Selic, among others.” However, the monetary authority did not detail the operation of the measures.
“Even with a contingency scheme, it is not possible to say that Pix will be fully operational during a strike. of the Sign.
The expectation of adhesion to the movement is 60% to 70% of the category, predicts the union.
With no readjustment in the last three years, BC servers ask for salary recomposition of 26.3% and career restructuring of analysts and technicians.
In BC, analysts receive a gross monthly salary of approximately R$19,000 to R$27,000, while the remuneration of technicians varies from around R$7,500 to R$12,500.
As for the non-salary agenda, employees ask for a change in the nomenclature from analyst to auditor, for example, and a higher education requirement for BC technicians to join.
Until Wednesday (31), the eve of the strike, around 700 civil servants with a commissioned position (out of a total of 1,000, 50% of them managerial and 50% advisory) surrendered their positions. The BC board, however, has not yet released the decommissioning ordinances.
The discontent of civil servants grew after President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) waved an increase only to federal police, a category that makes up his support base. The amount available in the Budget to raise the remuneration of civil servants is R$ 1.7 billion.
The pressure increased on March 17, when BC employees began daily stoppages from 2 pm to 6 pm and began operating in standard operation.
In an assembly last Monday (28), the servers of the monetary authority decided to intensify the movement given the time limit defined by the electoral law for salary readjustments to civil servants. The decision had the support of about 90% of the 1,300 active servants who participated in the deliberation, according to the union.
The provision prohibits the “general review of the remuneration of public servants that exceeds the recomposition of the loss of their purchasing power during the election year” from six months before the election, scheduled for October 2 this year, until the inauguration of the elected.
But the BC management has been working with the understanding of a wing of the government that occasional readjustments can be made until July, 180 days before the change of mandate, based on a ruling by the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) and an opinion from the PGFN ( Attorney General of the National Treasury).
In a meeting with representatives of the civil servants, last Tuesday (29), the president of BC, Roberto Campos Neto, said that he will participate in a meeting with members of the Executive next week to “combine the PF and BC movements”.
Campos Neto took a vacation on the eve of the servers strike, which displeased the category. “The BC president should be here, postpone this vacation and fight to help us in the claim”, said Faiad.
In recent weeks, the mobilization of BC servers has caused a series of delays in the monetary authority’s routine, especially in the dissemination of indicators.
The release of the economic-financial notes for the month of February was postponed, there was a delay in the publication of the exchange flow, the Focus survey, the result of the pre-Copom questionnaire and the calculation of the daily ptax (exchange rate).
The period was also marked by interruptions in the preventive monitoring of Pix and SPB (Brazilian Payment System).
With the start of the monetary authority employees’ strike, other areas have increased pressure on the government for salary recomposition.
The National Treasury officials decided to intensify the standard operation and will also sit back this Friday. Another stoppage of the category is scheduled for next Tuesday (5).
The movement of employees has already left a trail of delay in the area’s activities. The disclosure of the government’s gross tax burden estimate for the year 2021, for example, has been postponed to next Monday (4).
On Thursday (31), the servers of the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) announced the stoppage of activities next Wednesday (6) and the start of a standard operation, which should impact the delivery of audit reports.
The servants of the CVM (Securities Commission), responsible for overseeing the capital market, may also stop next week. SindCVM (National Union of CVM Servers) called a meeting for next Monday to assess the possibility of total or partial suspension of activities.
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