According to Minister Esther Dweck, the idea is that the strikes do not affect essential sectors
The Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services, stated, at an event on Monday (11.Nov.2024) that the government wants to debate the strike law for public servants. In a seminar held by Movimento Pessoas à Frente and Folha de São Paulo, the minister discussed the law on strikes, the salary adjustment for public servants and the challenges of the lack of professionals. The idea, according to the minister, is that the strike of employees cannot affect essential services, and came from a dialogue with public employees and unions.
“The right to strike also has to be regularized to define what is an essential activity and ensure that the population is not affected”, Dweck said. The organization’s conversation with employees and unions still discusses a draft on salary negotiation to be presented to Congress.
On Tuesday (Nov 12), in a public hearing in the Chamber of Deputies, representatives of different categories of public servants criticized the government’s slowness in defining salary adjustments and career restructuring. For the representatives present, the Lula government was right to open negotiation tables with civil servants, but frustrated part of the civil service in the process.
The president of Fonacate (Permanent National Forum of Typical State Careers), Rudinei Marques, criticized the progress of the negotiations by saying that they were “poorly managed”. “The negotiation was poorly conducted and an adhesion contract was thrown on the table like this: sign it, otherwise you’re out. This was done to us and to several entities, which were subjected to this pressure”he stated.
In August, during discussion of the (Annual Budget Law), the government reached more than 40 agreements to negotiate salary adjustments with 98.2% of employees. Previously, around 30% of careers in the public sector had 20 remuneration standards, a number that rose to 80%, explained the Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services.
“We are also discussing so that this progression is not simply by time, but by performance criteria,” said Esther Dweck at an event. For the minister, the government is also working to combat the lack of professionals. Currently, 11.4% of public servants can retire at any time – and the expectation is that more than 180,000 will retire in the next 10 years.
