Strike at the Finance Department harms tax amnesty programs and revenue collection.

Administrative staff at the State Treasury Department went on strike this Monday, the 11th; the group decided to strike to demand the repeal of State Law No. 2.890/2014, which established the Career, Positions and Remuneration Plan (PCCR) for the technical and administrative support staff of the department; the employees want the State government to present a new classification for the class; according to the Union of Administrative Employees of the State Treasury Department of Tocantins (Sindaf-TO), 98% of the employees joined the strike; the employees' PCCR is the target of an Unconstitutionality Action by the Public Prosecutor's Office; the strike is harming state revenue.

May 11, 2015, 19:38 AMUpdated May 27, 2019, 10:13 AM

Administrative staff at the State Treasury Department went on strike this Monday, the 11th; the group decided to strike to demand the repeal of State Law No. 2.890/2014, which established the Career, Positions and Remuneration Plan (PCCR) for the technical and administrative support staff of the department; the employees want the State government to present a new classification for the class; according to the Union of Administrative Employees of the State Treasury Department of Tocantins (Sindaf-TO), 98% of the employees joined the strike; the employees' PCCR is the target of an Unconstitutionality Action by the Public Prosecutor's Office; the strike is harming state revenue (Photo: Aquiles Lins)

Tocantins 247 - Administrative staff at the State Treasury Department went on strike this Monday, the 11th. The group decided to demand the repeal of State Law No. 2.890/2014, which established the Career, Positions and Remuneration Plan (PCCR) for the department's technical and administrative support staff. The employees want the state government to present a new classification for the class.

Another demand from the group is the immediate appointment of administrative staff who have been working in management positions since January, according to the Union of Administrative Staff of the Finance Department of the State of Tocantins (Sindaf/TO).

With the shutdown of administrative services at the State Finance Secretariat (Sefaz), 117 collection offices and service agencies of the secretariat are ceasing to collect taxes. The government is also failing to collect debts through the Tocantins State Government's Tax Credit Recovery Program (Refis). According to Sindaf, 98% of employees across the state have joined the strike.

The Finance Department is expected to begin negotiations with the group this afternoon to resolve the impasse.

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In March of this year, State Law No. 2.890, sanctioned by former governor Sandoval Cardoso (SD), which established the Career Plan, Positions and Salaries (PCCR) for the technical and administrative support staff of the State Finance Secretariat (Sefaz), was the target of a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI), filed by the State Public Prosecutor's Office.

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the positions created by the Law should be filled exclusively through a new public competitive examination. However, the method chosen for filling them was the use of civil servants who had passed the same competitive examination from the General Staff. The Public Prosecutor's Office alleges that this violated the constitutional principles of equality and impartiality, given that a certain group of civil servants, even though they passed the same examination, have the same level of education, and perform the same functions as the others, will be treated preferentially, obtaining a significant increase in their salaries as a result of the benefits of State Law No. 2.890/2014.

The Direct Action of Unconstitutionality (ADI) states that the Job, Career and Remuneration Plan was initially established through Provisional Measure No. 50/2014, which stipulated competitive examination as the method for filling positions, thus meeting constitutional requirements. However, the Provisional Measure and the Law that subsequently formalized the PCCR underwent amendments, presented by state deputies, which defined the classification of employees from the General Staff as the means of filling the technical and administrative support staff of the State Finance Secretariat (Sefaz).

On April 6th, approximately 300 employees of the State Finance Secretariat (Sefaz) went on strike to request that the Secretary of Finance, Paulo Afonso Teixeira, intercede with Governor Marcelo Miranda (PMDB) to defend the interests of the employees.

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