Assembly approves 5% increase for education.
The Minas Gerais State Assembly approved, in a second round of voting, a bill from the Minas Gerais Executive branch that adjusts by 5%, starting October 1, 2013, the salaries of those in the Basic Education Activities Group and those teaching in secondary and technological education. The proposal, which was processed under urgent procedure, received 51 votes in favor and none against, and was approved in its original form, that is, without further changes.
Minas Gerais Assembly - The Governor's Bill (PL) 4.647/13, which adjusts by 5%, starting October 1, 2013, the subsidy for careers in the Basic Education Activities Group and the career of high school and technological education teachers, was approved in the 2nd round at the Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais (ALMG) held this Tuesday (December 3, 2013). The proposal, which is being processed under urgency, had 51 votes in favor and none against, and was approved in the form of the previous version (i.e., without new changes).
According to the approved text, the readjustment applies to nominally identified personal benefits that were granted to education employees when the subsidy was established, due to the sum of the basic salary and the benefits incorporated into the subsidy being higher than the subsidy value of the last grade of the level in which the placement occurred. The readjustment also applies to retired employees and pensioners who are entitled to parity.
The meeting was marked by the massive presence of civil servants, who occupied the galleries and protested against Complementary Law Project (PLC) 54/13, which aims to restructure the pension system for state civil servants and, in practice, extinguishes the Minas Gerais State Pension Fund (Funpemg).
Representative Rogério Correia (PT) made a new appeal for PLC 54/13 not to be voted on. Following this, the representative submitted a request for the vote on the salary adjustment for civil servants to be considered first, which was approved.
Regarding Bill 4.747/13, Representative Rogério Correia emphasized that, since the bill was only approved now, there will not be time for the adjustment to be granted this month. "Teachers will only receive the increase in January 2014," he stated.
The parliamentarian also noted that the government altered the bill in the second round, removing another right from the category, which is to allow teachers who have completed the required service time for retirement to remain absent from teaching activities. He requested the removal of this amendment, which was included in substitute bill No. 1 to the defeated one. In the plenary vote, this substitute bill was rendered ineffective (it was rejected).
In defense of the government, Congressman Bonifácio Mourão (PSDB) stated that the blame for the delay in voting on the matter lay with the opposition congressmen, who had prevented the vote until that moment.