The plenary of the Chamber of Deputies approved, this Wednesday (13), the Proposal for a Constitutional Amendment (PEC) on the national salary floor for nurses, nursing technicians, nursing assistants and midwives.
The salary floor values are not stipulated in the PEC. The proposal attributes the function to a federal law so that a minimum salary level is followed in the country among the aforementioned categories. The floor is valid for both the public and private spheres.
A bill on the floor has already been approved in the House and Senate with the provision that the minimum for nurses will be R$ 4,750.00. Nursing technicians must receive 70% of the minimum wage for nurses (R$3,325), while nursing assistants and midwives must receive 50% of the minimum wage (R$2,375). This text, however, has not yet been sanctioned.
The PEC also provides that the Union, the states, the Federal District and the municipalities must prepare or adapt the career plans of the professional categories covered by the end of the financial year in which the law referred to in the proposal is published so that the floors are applied.
The intention with the PEC is to give legal certainty to the application of the floor for the aforementioned categories. This is because parliamentarians considered that there was a possibility that the salary floor could be suspended by the courts “on the pretext of defect of initiative” if a constitutional provision on the subject was not approved.
The Novo party took a stand against the proposal throughout the process, claiming that there is no forecast of a budget source for the establishment of the minimum salary and that the increase in the amounts paid to these professionals could break health institutions.
Source: CNN Brasil
