Congress will release employee salaries.
The decision, announced by the Speaker of the House, Representative Marco Maia (PT-RS), comes seven days after the Access to Information Law came into effect.
Agency Brazil - The salaries and all functional data of Senate and Chamber employees will be disclosed, but only after the publication of a regulatory decree to be issued by the Ministry of Planning. The decision, announced this Wednesday, the 23rd, by the president of the Chamber, Deputy Marco Maia (PT-RS), comes seven days after the entry into force of the Access to Information Law, sanctioned at the end of last year by President Dilma Rousseff.
"The branches of government are in tune with the desires of society. I spoke with the president [of the Senate, José] Sarney, and we decided that Parliament, the most transparent of the branches of government, should give this response to society," said Marco Maia.
"We will await the decree to publish it in an organized manner, in coordination with the Executive branch," he added. According to the Workers' Party member, the data should be released name by name, with the sums of basic earnings and bonuses for each employee.
The Access to Information Law aims to guarantee Brazilian citizens access to official data from the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The law regulates access to government data by the press and citizens, and puts an end to the perpetual secrecy of official documents.
Under the new law, the maximum secrecy period has been limited to 25 years for top-secret documents, 15 years for secret documents, and five years for restricted documents. Top-secret documents may have their secrecy period renewed only once.
With this law, Brazil joins 91 other countries in the group of nations that recognize that information held by the State is a public good. In addition to financial expenditures and contracts, the law guarantees the monitoring of general data on programs, actions, projects, and works.
Today, Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Cármen Lúcia, who also presides over the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), decided to disclose the salaries she receives from both courts, in accordance with the requirements of the new law.
Cármen Lúcia anticipated the release of the paychecks of ministers, former ministers and employees of the STF, defined yesterday (22) in an administrative meeting at the Supreme Court. According to a document released on the TSE website, the minister receives from the STF the ceiling for public service, R$ 26,7, less R$ 8,8 in taxes.