Contest applicants will have to prove their declared breed.
Those who self-declare as black, dark-skinned or brown will have to submit to a commission that will evaluate phenotypic aspects; those who do not fit will be eliminated from the competition; the new rule is included in a Normative Instruction from the Ministry of Planning and Management published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday (2) and is already valid even for ongoing competitions, which will have to rectify their notices; a federal law from 2014 reserves 20% of vacancies in federal public competitions for black candidates for 10 years.
247 - The Ministry of Planning and Management published on Tuesday (2) in the Official Gazette of the Union a Normative Instruction determining that candidates for public competitions who self-declare as black, dark-skinned or brown will have to prove the information to a commission that will consider the phenotypic aspects of the candidate.
The rules are already in effect for public tender notices for the hiring of permanent positions and public jobs in the federal public administration, autonomous agencies, public foundations, public companies, and mixed-capital companies controlled by the Union.
The notices must detail the methods for verifying race, indicating at what point, necessarily before the final result is approved, the verification of the self-declaration will be carried out.
If the committee verifies that the statement is false, the candidate will be eliminated from the selection process.
Ongoing competitions, that is, those before the publication of the final results, will have to amend their announcements to comply with the new rules.
A 2014 federal law reserves 20% of positions in federal public service exams for Black candidates for 10 years.
In May of this year, the São Paulo City Hall summoned candidates who self-identified as Black in the competition for 2.472 teaching positions to prove the veracity of their declaration.