Research entities and groups have required the departure of the president, Júlio Castelo Branco, after the removal of a servant responsible for creating a diversity committee in the agency.
The employee is Larissa Ormay, who was crowded in the coordination of International Relations. Internally, her departure was attributed to the creation of the committee in 2021, and with which Castelo Branco would have implied.
Inpi employees heard by the panel reported that Larissa was warned of her removal on June 10. The whole process occurred, according to the reports, in a face -to -face meeting, without written records, and in which the server was instructed to collect their belongings, return the functional notebook and leave the place. Access to internal systems, which includes the institutional email, were blocked.
According to the INPI, Larissa was not fired, but returned to her home agency – the Ministry of Management, she had been given to the Institute in 2019. The institute said she requested her return to the folder of origin by “institutional decision” without specifying the reasons.
Larissa’s departure motivated a series of criticism of the presidency of INPI. A manifesto, headed by, cites a “great democratic crisis” in the organ and states that the removal “generated a growing malaise among the servers”, especially because it was not justified by the presidency.
“What seems to exist is a ‘Dei Washing’, that is, just a makeup of diversity and inclusion without a real commitment to transformation. In recent weeks, this process has culminated in the removal of the server who founded the committee. The strange thing is that this removal has been without any bureaucratic process, generating a climate of tension in the institution,” says the manifesto.
By law, administrative decisions should be explained and, in case of non -compliance, can characterize as administrative misconduct by managers.
The document has 37 signatures and includes names by researchers, representatives of (National Students Union) and UBES (Brazilian Union of Secondary Students) and Diversity Committees linked to the research area.
In a statement, the INPI said it was analyzing the procedures adopted in the exit of the server, “in order to identify any aspects that require correction and, if applicable, adopt appropriate measures.”
To his colleagues, according to the panel, Larissa claimed persecution from Castelo Branco since 2021, when she, in partnership with another colleague, proposed the creation of the diversity committee in the organ. At the time, Castelo Branco, then administration director, would have implicated with the formation of the group and refused to collaborate.
The INPI denied that Larissa’s removal is related to the performance of the Diversity Committee. “In this context, the institute maintains the commitment to the legitimacy of the collegiate body, which works in an advisory and propositional manner, in a democratic and transparent manner, with periodic election of its members (the last performed in 2024) and collegiate decisions,” he says.
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