Marinho: there is no debate in the government about cutting unemployment insurance and salary bonus
The Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho (PT)stated, this Wednesday (30), that he was never consulted by members of the government about the spending review agenda. According to him, there is no debate in the Executive about cutting benefit resources such as unemployment insurance and salary bonuses.
“If you have never discussed it with me, these measures do not exist. If I am responsible for the issue of work and employment, this debate does not exist, unless the government fires me”, stated the minister.
Asked if he could resign if the measures progress, the minister replied that “if I am attacked, it is possible”.
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“A decision without my participation, on a topic of mine, is an attack. And I don’t know that any State minister has discussed this issue (cost cutting)”, he amended.
Marinho stated that the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has repeated that budgetary resources will be sought where “they exist, and not in the hair, on the back, on the loins of the worker”.
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According to Marinho, the debate about cutting spending on benefits is limited to technicians. “This debate does not exist in the government. If it existed, President Lula would have said ‘Marinho, take it easy’. There is effort, study, technicians trying to guess, looking”, he added.
The minister also said that unemployment insurance and salary bonuses cannot be considered “expenses”. “What is spent? Unnecessary things, if there are unnecessary things you have to cut them”, he assessed.
Finally, the minister reinforced that combating fraud in public policies is the obligation of any manager.
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