TCU authorizes super-salaries for employees of the Chamber, Senate and the Court itself The Federal Audit Court (TCU) proposed an adjustment in the amounts paid as bonuses to the agency's employees. The increase could reach 40%. The proposal was sent to the National Congress. ? The bonus is an additional payment paid to employees who perform some special functions, such as leadership or direction. These mechanisms for circumventing the maximum remuneration limit are known as "fixtures". Last week, the TCU decided that employees of the court itself, the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate will be able to receive remuneration above the constitutional ceiling. The decision was made by the TCU plenary, which now allows the salary and bonus for management, leadership and advisory functions of these employees to be considered separately. With the change advocated by the TCU, the constitutional ceiling would not be applied to the sum of the salary and the bonus and would start to be applied to these two payments separately. ? The civil service ceiling corresponds to the remuneration of ministers of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), currently at R$ 46,366.19. The Federal Constitution says that remuneration funds, that is, those paid on account of the work carried out by the public agent, must be subject to the ceiling. The proposal to readjust TCU employees was revealed by the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and confirmed by GloboNews. TCU asks Congress for an adjustment of up to 40% in bonuses paid to the organization's employees Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction What the project says The bill to readjust the bonuses was sent by the president of the TCU, minister Vital do Rêgo, on Wednesday — the same day as the decision on the bonuses. According to the court's calculations, 923 bonuses are paid to the agency's employees. If the adjustment is approved, the cost to public coffers will be R$27.7 million per year. Some examples of readjustment: Level 1: goes from R$ 1,554.42 per month to R$ 2,176.19 Level 8 (the highest): goes from R$ 8,987.39 to R$ 12,132.98 TCU's arguments Along with the bill, the TCU presented a defense of the proposal and wrote: "There is a progressive lag in the values of trust functions when compared to the complexity of responsibilities currently exercised and the remuneration standards practiced in federal bodies with equivalent organizational structures", says the letter sent to Congress. "The proposed update is carefully structured and guided by institutional governance parameters, strengthening the jobs responsible for supervising technical units, coordinating highly complex inspections, providing superior advice and implementing the Court's strategic guidelines", argues the TCU.