Rio de Janeiro councilors approved, on Thursday night (5), bill 186-A/2024, which changes the work and hiring regime in municipal employees. Among the main changes brought about by the project is the end of the bonus license, granted every five years to the city’s public servants.
Servants who have already earned the right to enjoy leave for their length of service, before the law came into force, will be able to take the leave or be compensated in cash. Even those who have not yet completed the five years required to be entitled to the benefit will be able to obtain a proportional license.
Employees whose time until retirement is up to 24 months will be able to make an administrative agreement with the city hall to receive, in up to five years, in cash, the value of unused leave.
Another change brought by the PLC is the counting of municipal teachers’ workload. The class hour for these professionals, which was previously 50 minutes, will now be 60 minutes, thus increasing the workload by ten minutes every hour.
The text also changes the granting of vacations. Now, it will be possible to split them into up to three periods, as long as one of them is at least 14 days long and none of them is less than five calendar days.
The bill presented by Rio’s city hall was approved with the vote of 31 parliamentarians. Fifteen councilors were against the proposal. Of the 47 amendments presented to the project, eight were included. Now the PLC goes to sanction or veto by the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes.
The PLC received a lot of criticism from the State Union of Education Professionals (Sepe-RJ), which called the project a “package of evil” and classified its approval as a “shame”.
“Despite the strong mobilization of the category, on strike since 11/25, which denounced the seriousness of the package of evils, the work overload for teachers with more classes and more classes without any salary increase was approved by the councilors”, informs note released by Sepe.
Following the approval of the text, the union will hold a new meeting this Friday (6), at 10 am, in the main hall of the Club Municipal (Rua Haddock Lobo, nº 359/Metrô Afonso Pena). “Sepe convenes the category to discuss the direction of mobilization against the project”.
