International Nursing Day was celebrated in a solemn session in the House of Representatives
The defense of the approval of the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC), which links the wage floor of nurses, nursing technicians, nursing assistants and midwives to a workload of 30 hours per week, was the main point of the solemn session that honored International Nursing Day (May 12) in the House of Representatives, on Wednesday (14.MAI.2025).
The proposal also provides for an annual floor adjustment that will not be less than the inflation variation rate of the previous year.
Deputies and representatives of the category asked for a hurry in the analysis of PEC by the Federal Senate, so that the text can be approved and sent to the House.
In the evaluation of Deputy Bruno Farias (Avante-MG), coordinator of Parliamentary front In defense of nursing, the federal government’s sensitivity is lacking sensitivity and senators to vote the measure. “If you have no pity or sensitivity, you see white lab coat one day and stay on duty to see how much nurses, technicians and assistants suffer”he declared.
Funds
Despite the defense of PEC by the participants of the session, Deputy Mauro Benevides Filho (PDT-CE) drew attention to the fact that the text does not mention which source of resources would be used to cover the reduction of the current 44 hours per week to 30, in the case of public network professionals.
“From 44 to 30 hours per week, it is $ 16 billion. This is not such an easy value within the Union budget”, said Benevides. “This achievement should be done in two stages. In the first stage, reduce from 44 to 36 hours, there would be $ 5.8 billion. Two or three years later, would bring to 30 hours.”
Deputy Alice Portugal (PCdoB-BA) stated that PEC’s financial impacts could be covered with pre-salt.
Already the president of the National Federation of Nurses, Solange Caetano, said he did not accept excuses that there is no money to pay the category. “In the last period alone, the government paid $ 44 billion in parliamentary amendments. So $ 16 billion mean nothing. It’s too little for workers who save lives, to give dignity to those who spend hours and hours folding on duty.”he declared.
It establishes national floor of R $ 4,750 for nurses, R $ 3,325 for technicians and R $ 2,375 for nursing assistants and midwives.
With information from the House Agency.
