Throughout 2024, specific negotiation tables resulted in more than 98% of federal public servants being guaranteed replacement and real salary increases and career restructuring. The data was released by the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services this Monday (28), Public Servants Day.
According to the ministry, the federal government signed a total of 46 agreements with representatives from different sectors of the public service. “In addition, through this permanent dialogue, a linear adjustment granted to all employees, in the year 2023, in the amount of 9%, was agreed, in addition to the increase in food allowance.”
In a note, the ministry highlighted that, in 2024, there was a new adjustment in food aid from R$658 to R$1,000 (increase of 52%); 51.1% increase in resources allocated to supplementary health care (health aid); and a 51.1% increase in pre-school assistance (daycare allowance), from R$321 to R$484.90, for all federal employees.
“Now, the government continues with an open dialogue with civil servant representatives in the debates of the working groups that are being established to discuss specific career topics.”
Combating harassment
In the statement, the ministry also cites the Federal Program for the Prevention and Confrontation of Harassment and Discrimination within the scope of the direct, autonomous and foundational federal public administration, which aims to combat all forms of violence arising from work relationships, especially harassment moral and sexual and discrimination, with emphasis on historically vulnerable groups, such as women, indigenous people, black people, elderly people, people with disabilities and LGBTQIAPN+.
Breastfeeding rooms
The statement also highlights the beginning of the implementation, throughout 2024, of breastfeeding rooms at the ministries’ headquarters. “These spaces within the agencies guarantee women, whether they are employees, collaborators or outsourced employees, comfort, privacy and safety for breastfeeding and expressing.”
Server health
Another issue mentioned involves agreements negotiated with GEAP and the Fundação Assistencial dos Servidores do Ministério da Fazenda (Assefaz), health plan operators in Brazil for public servants, in addition to the agreement to create products with lower market prices and new price tables. costing. “With this agreement, employees who are in the highest classes of health plan tables will be able to count on more affordable values and smaller adjustments.”
Management
The ministry also reported that it is looking for ways to prioritize the development, retention and recognition of professionals committed to delivering excellent public services. The federal government’s forecast is that the Performance Management Program (PGD) will come into force next Friday (1st). “The PGD is a management instrument that transforms the logic of public service by replacing the time sheet with a focus on unit deliveries and organizational strategies.”
“Among its benefits are greater transparency in unit deliveries, improved team management with alignment of results to strategies and reduced expenses, especially with maintenance of physical spaces, due to the different work modalities offered by the program. It can be implemented in any body or entity of the Federal Public Administration.”
Career structuring
The ministry published, in 2024, Ordinance No. 5,127/2024, which aims to guarantee the transparent record of the preparation of career proposals and informed that it should promote, over the next few years, “the gradual and coherent improvement of public management in the organization of the State’s workforce”.
“For the first time, the career system of the Federal Executive Branch receives a regulation that provides guidelines for new requests for restructuring careers in the Federal Public Administration. With this, the Ministry of Management seeks to strengthen the logic that public careers must be created to provide public policies and, therefore, careers must be linked to the respective policies, and not to a specific body or entity.”
“Simplifying the remuneration structure and improving employee recognition and development mechanisms prevents the creation of new careers to perform duties already performed by existing careers.”
Public competitions
The resumption of competitions was cited by the ministry as a “valuation action”, with emphasis on the holding of the Unified National Public Competition (CPNU). The action, according to the note, aims to promote equal opportunities for access to public positions; standardize procedures in the application of tests; improve server selection methods; and ensure the principle of impersonality throughout the competition.
The CPNU was held in 228 cities and brought together 970,037 people to compete for a total of 6,640 vacancies in 21 bodies of the Federal Public Administration. Throughout 2024, the ministry reported having published 13 ordinances authorizing public competitions, with a forecast of filling 1,580 public positions.
Condsef
In a note published this Monday, the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef) highlighted the importance of public service for the construction of democracy.
“We know that there is no democracy without public services. Public servants are the protagonists in promoting citizenship and building a more just and egalitarian society, guaranteeing access for the entire population to basic social rights.”
The entity also recalled the attacks that the category suffers: “We cannot forget that the attack that public servants and employees suffer is encouraged precisely by those who benefit from privatizations: big businessmen, bankers and ultra-neoliberal politicians.”
The note ends with a tribute to the employees who, despite adversity, remain firm and committed to their duties.
“We reaffirm the importance of being together, seeking to improve working conditions, the defense of rights against any and all setbacks and the equal appreciation of civil servants — whether active, retired, pensioners or amnestied.”
Article expanded at 3:25 pm to include the last five paragraphs
