Lula sanctions project to try to reduce the INSS queue and vetoes benefits for DF police officers

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) sanctioned a law that seeks to reduce INSS (National Social Security Institute) queues and, among other measures, creates bonuses for employees working outside of working hours

The law also allows the use of telemedicine for medical examinations and accepts, in exceptional cases, medical and dental certificates pending evaluation, dispensing with official examinations, to grant leave for treatment of one’s own health or due to illness in a family member.

The objective of the law is to regularize the INSS queue, so that new requests can be analyzed within the 45 days established by law – which, in many cases, has not been happening. To this end, the law creates the Social Security Queue Combating Program.

The bonus paid to employees who work outside of working hours is R$68 for administrative positions and R$75 for medical experts.

Payments will be made based on a correlation table between completed processes or services. The extra money will not be incorporated into the public servant’s salaries nor will it serve as a basis for calculating other benefits or advantages. The sanction was confirmed in an extra edition of the Official Gazette of the Union published on Tuesday night (14).

The proposal approved by the National Congress also established salary adjustments for civil police officers, military personnel and firefighters in the Federal District.

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Lula sanctioned the main demand of PMs and civil police officers, with salary adjustments that should increase, on average, the salaries of the categories by 18%.

The president, however, vetoed some points considered important by the police. One of them was an excerpt that allowed the Government of the Federal District to grant advantages and benefits to police officers through reallocation of the local government’s own budget.

The argument accepted by Lula was that it is the responsibility of the federal government to “organize and maintain” the DF police forces – and a permission of this type could burden the Constitutional Fund, used to pay for the salaries of public security agents in the capital.

Lula also rejected sections of the law that expanded the possibility of civil police officers being transferred to other bodies while maintaining the salaries paid by the Constitutional Fund; It also prohibited public security employees elected to preside over the union from being entitled to paid leave.

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The law sanctioned by Lula on Tuesday (14) still deals with two subjects without any relation to the central object of the proposal. In one of them, the law recreates 13,375 vacant positions in the federal administration and transforms them into 6,692 permanent positions and 2,243 commission positions and positions of trust. The change “will be carried out without increasing expenses”, says the law.

The justification given by the government was the need to reassign positions to the Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Microenterprise and Small Business.

The portfolio, the 38th of the Lula government, was created in September to house minister Márcio França (PSB), dismissed from the Ministry of Ports and Airports to attract the support of the Republicans party in the Chamber of Deputies with the appointment of minister Silvio Costa Filho.
The text also creates a quota, from 10% to 30%, for indigenous people in Funai (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples) competitions.