Government proposes a 9% adjustment to education employees in 2025 | Brazil

The federal government presented, this Friday (19), a proposal to restructure the careers of technical-administrative employees at universities and federal institutes. The categories are on strike in much of the country. According to the proposal, employees will be granted a 9% adjustment, starting in January 2025, and 3.5%, in May 2026. The information was released by the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI).

The proposal was presented at the MGI headquarters, in Brasília, during the fourth meeting of the Specific and Temporary Table that debates career restructuring.

For 2024, the government had already formalized, for all federal employees, a proposal to readjust food allowance, which would go from R$658 to R$1,000 (51.9% more), a 51% increase in resources allocated to supplementary health care (health aid) and an increase in pre-school assistance (daycare aid), from R$321 to R$484.90.

According to the ministry, if the increase in benefits and the 9% adjustment granted last year are considered, in addition to the proposal made this Friday, technicians would have an average global adjustment of more than 20% for their career.

According to the MGI, the proposal presented this Friday also includes the verticalization of careers “with a single matrix with 19 standards; the reduction of the interval for progression based on merit from 18 to 12 months; the change in the time taken to reach the top of the career ladder, which is now 18 years”.

Servers

The technical-administrative employees in the area of ​​education classified the proposal presented by the federal government as “derisory and disappointing”. According to the National Union of Basic, Professional and Technological Education Servers (Sinasefe), the negotiations in the morning were dedicated to the technicians’ careers. In the afternoon, according to him, the negotiation table would deal with the teachers’ careers.

In addition to initially demanding a salary increase that varies from 22.71% to 34.32%, depending on the category, the employees are asking for the restructuring of careers in the technical-administrative and teaching areas; the revocation of “all regulations that harm federal education approved under the Temer and Bolsonaro governments”, as well as the recomposition of the budget and the immediate readjustment of student aid and scholarships.

According to Sinasefe, the tendency is for the strike to continue, as the term presented by the government, so far, does not restore salaries or restructure careers. “The government’s proposal was an adjustment of 9% for January 2025 and 3.5% for May 2026. This means maintaining the salary freeze for 2024”, assesses the union.

The decision of education officials will be made official after consultation with local assemblies and presentation during the national plenary, yet to be called.