The Court of Justice of Bahia (TJBA) will need supplementary funding to pay salaries.

The President of the Court of Justice of Bahia (TJBA), Judge Maria do Socorro (pictured), confirms that the court will need supplementary funding to pay the salaries of its employees and magistrates in November and December of this year. A detailed breakdown of the TJ's expenses for this year shows that the resources to pay salaries in the last two months of the year are significantly below the average of other months, fluctuating around R$ 47 million. "There is a need for supplementary funding, but we still don't know if we will be able to obtain it or not. It will depend on the situation in the country itself, the government, and how things unfold until then," says the judge.

February 03, 2017, 16:13 PMUpdated May 27, 2019, 13:14 AM

The President of the Court of Justice of Bahia (TJBA), Judge Maria do Socorro (pictured), confirms that the court will need supplementary funding to pay the salaries of its employees and judges in November and December of this year. The detailed breakdown of the TJ's expenses for this year shows that the resources to pay salaries in the last two months of the year are well below the average of other months, fluctuating around R$ 47 million. "There is a need for supplementary funding, but we still don't know if we will be able to obtain it or not. It will depend on the situation of the country itself, the government, and how things will unfold until then," says the judge (Photo: Romulo Faro).

Bahia 247 - The President of the Court of Justice of Bahia (TJBA), Judge Maria do Socorro, confirms that the court will need supplementary funding to pay the salaries of its employees and judges in the months of November and December of this year.

In the breakdown of the Court of Justice's expenses for this year, it is possible to observe that the resources to pay salaries in the last two months of the year are well below the average of other months, fluctuating around R$ 47 million.

"The country is in crisis, in all sectors, especially budgetary. The political crisis effectively generates a budgetary crisis. Our expectations are very high because there is a need for supplementary funding, but we still don't know if we will be able to get it or not. It will depend on the situation of the country itself, the government, and how things will unfold until then," Socorro told Bahia Notícias.

Court employees in Bahia (TJBA) are demanding inflation-based salary adjustments from Governor Rui Costa, complaining that they haven't received an increase since 2015. The court president published a decree to increase the food allowance for employees and judges to R$ 1.