BC servers put pressure on with standard start of operation – 07/03/2023 – Market

With no progress in negotiations with the Lula government (PT) and for ten years without new public tenders, Central Bank employees began this Monday (3) a standard operation, with the promise of greater slowness in the provision of services and daily partial shutdowns.

Indeterminate mobilization initially includes the possibility of delays or incomplete deliveries, as well as the cancellation of meetings and external events. According to Sinal (National Union of Central Bank Employees), initial membership was around 50% of the functional body of the monetary authority.

The institution’s employees claim career restructuring measures and the creation of a productivity bonus similar to the bonus that was regulated for Federal Revenue tax auditors. They complain about the lack of isonomy between state careers and demand equal treatment.

“The neglect given by the current Ministry of Management and Innovation is unacceptable, which has had the BC’s career restructuring project on hold for six months,” says Fábio Faiad, president of Sinal, in a note.

Sought after, the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services said that it will sign, on the 11th, with union representatives, the working protocol of the permanent negotiating table with civil servants. “From then on, there will be a calendar of dialogue with the civil servants through the Department of Labor Relations”, stated the folder.

The BC, in turn, said it would not comment on the matter when asked about the potential impacts of the standard operation of the servers on the routine activities of the autarchy.

Last Thursday (29), BC president Roberto Campos Neto said that the institution is going through a “difficult time”. “We have employees leaving every year, it’s been a long time without a contest, some areas are strangled,” he said.

“We see that there were some initiatives for the Federal Revenue, this always generates dissatisfaction because the BC has been asking for improvements for a long time. We understand that it is important to keep the BC body functioning, working, and making deliveries with the diligence that done, but with satisfaction”, he added.

Last year, employees sat idly by for about three months, when then-president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) wanted to give a raise only to police officers – which ended up not materializing.

Campos Neto says he has spoken with Minister Esther Dweck (Management) a few times and points out that a portion of the demands is non-pecuniary, that is, it does not have an immediate budgetary impact.

Diogo Guillen, director of economic policy at the BC, recalls that it has been ten years without new contests for the monetary authority, while we see professionals leaving the institution to work in other government agencies or in private sector companies.

According to data from May, the BC has almost half of vacant positions, with 3,350 active servants and 3,120 vacant positions. Despite this, the monetary authority was not included in the package of new public tenders announced by the Lula government on June 16. In all, there will be 4,436 vacancies, divided into 20 bodies linked to 14 ministries.

According to Dweck, the numbers were decided based on criteria such as the number of vacant positions, projected retirements for the coming years, structure of the body (whether it gained or lost attributions) and impact on the provision of services to the population.

The employees’ demonstration has gained support from BC directors and department heads, who have been publicly manifesting themselves in a coordinated action.

Fernando Rocha, head of the BC’s Statistics department, has spoken on more than one occasion about the “true dismantling” of the institution in recent years, arguing that the staff is “getting dangerously close to its limit”.

“We have a growing and unacceptable remuneration asymmetry”, said Rocha before presenting the credit statistics on June 28th. “This treatment is unequal and unfair and needs to be corrected as soon as possible.”

“The BC is at the limit of its capacity to deliver to society, even so it has been taking on new assignments every day while losing servers constantly and without replacement”, he added.

Days before, he had shed light on the reduced teams that are in charge of the Focus bulletin, which collects financial market projections and serves as a subsidy for the work of the Copom (Monetary Policy Committee) and other databases.

Faced with this scenario, Rocha asked the authorities to “look very carefully” at the risks and “act promptly” to correct the asymmetries and recompose the BC’s staff.

For Mauricio Moura, Relationship, Citizenship and Conduct Supervision director, collective mobilization is about valuing the career of BC employees.

He points out that the body’s attributions have grown and many deliveries have been made in recent times, such as Pix and SVR (Values ​​Receivable System).

“If we lose our talents to other public service careers due to asymmetry, or if we don’t attract this type of person in the next contests, the BC’s productivity will fall, it will be harmed. Who will lose in the end is the citizen” , he said during the weekly live of the municipality that, on the 19th, discussed ways to protect yourself from scams and fraud.

Otavio Damaso, director of Regulation, also used the channel to express himself publicly on the subject. When talking about Open Finance on the live on the 26th, he praised the BC’s “very hard work” over the last few decades.

“More recently, the BC’s staff has been feeling a little unmotivated, mainly due to the increase in salary asymmetry with other public service careers”, he said.

During the live broadcasts, employees expressed themselves via chat with the hashtags #valorizaBC #RPBCJá, claiming the creation of a productivity retribution bonus.

Some also cited a lack of motivation, a feeling of discredit, a deteriorated internal climate and the need to discuss career enhancement.

BC servants make up the elite of civil service. Analyst salaries, with higher education requirements, range from R$20,924.80 to R$29,832.94, excluding bonuses. Technicians, with a medium level, receive between R$ 7,938.81 and R$ 13,640.89 per month. This year, as of May, the government granted a linear readjustment of 9% to federal civil servants.