Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Friday at the Planalto Palace a 9 percent salary increase for central government public employees starting in May, a measure frozen since 2016.
"To improve any public service, in any country in the world, you have to hire personnel for functions that only human beings can do," Lula said in promulgating the law that the government had sent to Congress with the salary increase.
The President highlighted the negotiations between the federal public employees' unions and the government that took office on January 1.
"Brazil is going through a process . . .
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