Temer approves another raise: for Chamber of Deputies employees.

Carolina Gonçalves – Reporter for Agência Brasil

Employees of the Chamber of Deputies will begin receiving the salary adjustment approved in early June by the Chamber itself starting this Friday, June 29th. The law adjusting the remuneration was sanctioned by the acting president, Michel Temer, and published in this Friday's edition of the Official Gazette of the Union.

According to the text, the readjustment, which will reach 20,25% of the salary in a phased manner over four years, begins with 5,5%, calculated from January 1, 2016. In January of next year, another 5% will be applied to the salaries in effect on December 31 of this year. From January 1, 2018, there will be another increase of 4,8% on the salaries in effect in December 2017. The following year, another 4,5% will be applied to the salaries of the last month of 2018.

The salary increase for these civil servants was part of a package of bills that provided for adjustments for 16 categories. After negotiations, House leaders reached an agreement that allowed, in addition to the House's salary adjustment, a 20% increase in the salaries of Senate employees, various categories of Executive branch employees, and a 20% adjustment for federal teachers and careers linked to the education sector, such as those at the National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE) and the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep).

The agreement also guaranteed, on the same day (June 1st), the approval of the salary increase for Judiciary employees - 41% in a staggered manner, in eight installments - and the subsidies paid to the ministers of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) - which will increase from R$ 33.763,00 to R$ 39.293,38 - and to the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) - from R$ 33.763,00 to R$ 36.813,88 in June of this year 2016 and R$ 39.293,38 in January of 2017.