It spends more than R $ 1 billion a year on salaries, bonuses and aid paid to employees whose workday is neither controlled nor supervised – and that may often not be performing functions linked to the legislature. The value broke record in the management of the president (-PB).
Currently, there are about 10,000 parliamentary secretaries hired by the 513 deputies to work in Brasilia or in the state that they were elected-this Monday (21), 9,972, which varies daily and representing around 69% of the total servers of the house. The only validation about their work or the fulfillment of their 40 -hour journey are a certificate of the cabinet itself.
This type of gap allowed, for example, the existence of three ghost employees in Motta’s office ,.
A physical therapist was hired by the mayor’s office, but. Another employee of Motta worked at the same time as an advisor in Paraíba and as a social worker of a city hall at the same time as the work. Both were fired after the report sought Motta.
A third employee continues in the case, Louise Lacerda, daughter and niece of allied politicians of Motta who studies medicine and even lived in Rio Grande do Norte in part of graduation.
There are two types of positions of free appointment in the House: Parliamentary Secretaries, hired by the offices, and the Special Nature position (CNE), intended for the Board of Directors, commissions and party leaders.
Since 2015, there are totems scattered throughout the House for a biometric presence, but only CNE occupants are required to mark the point (when you arrive, when you leave and return from lunch, and when it comes to leaving).
The parliamentary secretaries in Brasilia only record their time with biometrics to receive extra time during the night sessions, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In other periods, there is no supervision or presence registration.
Each deputy has a monthly entitled to a cabinet money of R $ 133,000 to hire 5 to 25 parliamentary secretaries. They earn between R $ 1,584.10 and R $ 18,719.88, as well as food aid of R $ 1,393.11 and other bonuses.
The presence control of these employees is done by the offices themselves, who monthly inform the Human Resources Department about the fulfillment of the journey.
This document has fragile control. The system is only filled to register medical certificates or indicate if there was any lack. If nothing is informed in this regard, it automatically indicates that the person has fulfilled the 40 hours per week, without any details of what the schedules were.
In states, control is nonexistent. Not all deputies have offices in their electoral bases and there is no monitoring by the House, about the work or the 40 hours per week established in the contract.
This lack of control occurs even after complaints, over the years, of ghost employees (who do not appear to work), “cracks” (when the congressman gets part of the salary) and servers paid by the legislature who, in fact, acted as cleaning lanes, babysitters or other personal functions for the parliamentarian, without binding with Congress.
Another common situation is when deputies and senators hire relatives of political allies, such as mayors and councilors, in exchange for support for the elections. Like the Sheet revealed, Motta himself employed his party.
“I would dare to say that most parliamentarians actually do not hire advisors, hire the electoral cables in the state. The offices in Brasilia are mostly empty. There are two or three advisors there, and most are in the state doing election campaign for the deputy for four years,” says Deputy Kim Kataguiri (União Brasil-SP).
Kataguiri was a project rapporteur to make the electronic point mandatory for all employees of the executive, legislature and judiciary. The text was approved in 2019 at the Public Administration, Administration and Service Commission, but has been stopped since.
The House expense only on parliamentary secretaries hit $ 1 billion last year, but went even more in the management of Motta. In the first half of 2024, the expense totaled R $ 486.4 million. In the same period of 2025, it reached R $ 539.2 million – almost 11%.
Motta has adopted a fiscal responsibility speech and has been charged from the Lula government (PT) spending cut since assuming the chamber of the House. He created a working group to elaborate an administrative reform of the public service, but the conclusion ignores measures to ensure more rigid control of the legislature of the legislature itself.
Coordinator of the Working Group, Deputy Pedro Paulo (PSD-RJ) argues that cabinet advisors are distinct from other civil servants, especially those in the state. “How do you put an electronic point if the subject is on the street, acting there at the base, serving mayor, overseeing works done with our amendments?” He says.
The Board of Directors, chaired by Motta, has not yet discussed measures to ensure that offices of the offices actually work. This function is the responsibility of the first secretary of the Chamber, led by Deputy Carlos Veras (PT-PE). He did not return the contacts of the report.
Deputy Sérgio Souza (MDB-PR), who is the fourth secretary of the Board of Directors of the House, said that the group had to address this semester on more controversial cases, such as requests for suspension and arrest against parliamentarians, and did not have time to discuss other initiatives.
“I speak for mine [funcionários]. If I don’t work, I send it away, “says the emedebista.
The report sought the House’s institutional advisory since Wednesday (16) to explain the lack of control of the employees’ journey, but had no return. The mayor also declined to comment on the lack of inspection.
About the trio of ghost employees in his cabinet, Motta said he “values strict compliance with his office employee obligations, including those who act remotely and are dispensed from the point within the rules established by the House.”
