The Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi, said, this Monday (10), that the provisional measure (MP) that will recreate the payment of productivity bonuses for employees of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) must be signed later this week by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The measure will enable employees to analyze more benefit requests, in an effort to reduce the queue. By the end of June, around 1.8 million requests were awaiting medical expertise and administrative analysis related to benefits such as retirement, pension, maternity pay, assistance for the elderly and people with disabilities, for example. “Today, there is an average of 800,000 requests each month, in addition to the queue. For three consecutive months we have been serving more initial order requests, that is, we are serving more than we receive. The productivity bonus is called counter-shift. You have a normal shift and you will have a non-shift, in which the server will receive a bonus to be able to just queue. So we’re going to start at the back of the queue, which is about a year from now. Our intention is to have the entire queue covered by law by December, which is a 45-day delay,” said the minister to Agência Brasil. Transparency On the last 5th, the Ministry of Social Security launched the Social Security Transparency Portal. On the internet, any citizen can consult the size and profile of the INSS queue. Until the end of last month, 36% of orders were within the target of up to 45 days. The minister also cited computerization and agreements with ministries and public bodies as ways to optimize INSS production. “The entire social assistance program is carried out by CadÚnico, a system that municipalities have. If the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger [MDS] does a social assistance service, why do I have to do it again, why can’t this be automatic? Pilot experiments are already starting so that everything related to social assistance will be automatic. It left the side of the MDS, here it is only a matter of granting it, it is only a matter of releasing it”, explained Lupi. Other partnerships are with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, in relation to rural workers, and with the Ministry of Health and the Unified Health System (SUS), to allow analysis of benefits by telemedicine and digitized medical certificates. The Navy will also have an agreement with the Ministry of Social Security to share information on artisanal fishermen able to access the Seguro Defeso – a type of unemployment insurance they receive during the period of prohibited fishing. Citing that the country should reach the end of the year with around 39 million insured persons, the minister defended public spending on retirees and pensioners. “Anyone who thinks it’s an expense doesn’t know what an investment is. Sixty percent of Brazilian municipalities are supported by Social Security benefits. This month it was R$ 60 billion. It is not spent investing in the economy, ”he said. “The best and most effective way for you to achieve economic growth is to throw money into the hands of those in need, because that person will buy to survive, to have dignity”, added Lupi. CLT 80 years Minister Lupi’s statements were made during a panel discussion at the event 80 Years of CLT and the Future of Trade Union Law, promoted by the Brazilian Lawyers Institute, in Rio de Janeiro. At the debate table, made up of magistrates and labor lawyers, participants provided a background on the Consolidation of Labor Laws, which dates from May 1, 1943. There was also an analysis of the labor reform, approved by the National Congress in 2017. The Minister of the Superior Labor Court (TST) Alexandre Agra Belmonte assessed that the reform was wrong to leave out issues such as the regulation of work on digital platforms and self-employed workers. The magistrate pointed out what he considers the only success of the change in labor laws. “It gave the unions authority and effectiveness in negotiating working conditions. Collective agreements and conventions are, by nature, instruments of flexibility, which is why agreements and conventions exist. When the agreement is made by the categories, the legislation is paralyzed and is replaced by the collective norm, which is much more interesting for the members of the category than that norm produced by the State.” Minister Carlos Lupi called the labor reform anti-reform and criticized the end of union tax – paid directly by workers, which served as a source of funding for unions. “How can a unionism exist if it has no source of income, source of income? In what way, how to organize your trade unionists?”, he questioned. An appeal on the unconstitutionality of the contribution imposed on employees not affiliated to a union, by agreement or collective agreement, is currently being judged by the Federal Supreme Court. This contribution would be a way for the unions to find sources of income even with the end of the union tax.
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