Nursing professionals perform an act to value the category

Protest

About 150 people participated in the walk in Brasilia

Brasilia DF) – Nursing professionals gathered, this Sunday (21), in Brasília, in an act for the appreciation of the categories that work in the sector. The walk ended the 84th Brazilian Nursing Week, with the objective of showing the importance of the work of multidisciplinary teams in health care and for the humanization of care for the population.

The event was organized by the Brazilian Association of Nursing Section DF (Aben-DF), Unions of Nurses of the DF (SindEnfermeiro-DF), Union of Nursing Technicians (Sindate-DF) and Regional Council of Nursing (Coren-DF). About 150 nurses, nurses, technicians and nursing students participated in the walk.

For SindEnfermeiro-DF, the moment is to celebrate the achievements accumulated by the category and “renew energies for new fights”. Among them are the charge for more resources for the Unified Health System (SUS) and surveillance for the payment of the minimum wage for the category.

On May 12, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law opening a special credit of R$ 7.3 billion to pay the new national minimum wage for nursing workers. The measure, however, faces resistance from states and municipalities that claim that resources are still not enough.

In September last year, the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Luís Roberto Barroso suspended the national wage floor for clarification on the financial impact of the law that established the value. Last week, Barroso released the payment, after opening the special credit.

The new floor for nurses hired under the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) regime is BRL 4,750, as defined by Law nº 14,434/2022. Nursing technicians receive at least 70% of this amount (R$ 3,325) and nursing assistants and midwives, 50% (R$ 2,375). The floor applies to workers in the public and private sectors.

However, in the decision, the minister understood that states and municipalities should pay the national nursing floor within the limits of the amounts they receive from the federal government. According to the states, the impact on local accounts is BRL 10.5 billion and there are no resources to supplement the payment.

In the case of the private network, given the risk of layoffs, the floor must also be paid, but it can be collectively negotiated between companies and unions in the category. For professionals working for the federal government, the floor must be paid in full.

Data from the Federal Nursing Council account for more than 2.8 million professionals in the sector in the country, including 693,400 nurses, 450,000 nursing assistants and 1.66 million nursing technicians, in addition to about 60,000 midwives.

*With information from Agência Brasil

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