Today: progress on the government’s administrative reform bill. What happened — and will happen — in the Covid hearings. And corruption allegations against a Supreme Court justice.
Administrative reform back to the forefront
Congressman Darci de Matos submitted his final report on the government’s administrative reform bill to the House’s Constitution and Justice Committee. He recommended two tweaks: scrapping the possibility of the president altering the structure of government without congressional approval, and removing a provision prohibiting civil servants from holding multiple paying jobs.
Be smart. In September 2020, we dissected the proposal in detail (you can read it here).
Why it matters. If passed, the reform will enact the biggest changes to Brazilian public service since the country’s return to democracy in the 1980s. The core of the bill consists of ending civil servants’ ironclad job stability, instead conditioning their status to periodic performance reviews.
- Brazil spends 13 percent of its GDP on public servant wages and pensions — the 15th-most in the world per the World Bank — but just over 12 percent of workers are in public institutions, less than the OECD average.
What they are saying. “The reform is not about lowering vested rights, rather it is about...