Former workers of Rio de Janeiro’s Belford Roxo Metropolis Corridor say they have been fired by Mayor Wagner Carneiro, referred to as Waguinho (União Brasil), for refusing to assist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) within the runoff election. He’s the husband of Tourism Minister Daniela Carneiro (União Brasil).
At the least 5 former civil servants say they’ve been fired by Waguinh or haven’t been paid since October after defying their bosses’ directions to attend rallies after hours or for content material posted on-line.
They present timesheets with days labored and printouts of newsgroups with charges for attending political occasions and level out that others they know would have gone via the identical state of affairs however have been afraid to speak to them. Sheet.
Daniela and Waguinho are a few of the few leaders who brazenly supported Lulu at Baixada Fluminense. The nomination of Daniela, a re-elected federal parliamentarian, as a reward for this, along with the mind-set about União Brasil and increasing the presence of girls in authorities.
They’ve campaigned within the metropolis for the final three elections, from 2018 to 2022, together with not less than 4 accused of being a part of an area militia, in a hostile and armed local weather. One in all them is convicted former prime minister Juracy Alves Prudêncio, referred to as Jura, whose household maintains ties with the couple, as proven Sheet. The opposite two stay as municipal secretaries.
When contacted, Belford Metropolis Corridor Roxo stated the layoffs have been made as a result of administration had “created a brand new administrative construction, already permitted by the Metropolis Council.” He additionally stated that “if any civil servant attended a political occasion of any candidate, it was of his personal free will”.
Information of the sort of request has already been reported by RJ2 from TV Globo and was additionally investigated within the couple’s marketing campaign in 2018 in an archived course of, Metropoles portal stories.
In keeping with former workers who heard in regards to the 2022 marketing campaign, individuals in senior positions on the metropolis secretariats made lists of who went to the candidates of the day, requested their photographs at these locations and monitored their social networks. There have been additionally private threats of dismissal by telephone and SMS.
Instructor Simone Paula Oliveira, 48, says she acquired her final paycheck on September 20, earlier than her first shift. After educating all of October, he by no means noticed the cash come into his account. He went to choose it up on the city corridor, solely to seek out that his contract had been cancelled.
“I used to be canceled as a result of I supported [Jair] Bolsonaro and I didn’t go to the conferences they compelled me to attend. They stated, ‘If not, the identify will likely be recorded and he will likely be exonerated,'” says she, who additionally labored immediately in Waguinha’s places of work from 2015 to 2020 when he was state deputy after which mayor.
4 different ex-servicemen, who didn’t want to be recognized, recount the identical occasions that occurred aside from the Well being Schooling portfolio.
They are saying they’ve little doubt they have been shut down for his or her political beliefs. Three of them say they heard it from individuals near the mayor of their seek for solutions, together with being adopted on social media.
In one of many teams, an administrator wrote in October: “I personally request that everybody right here within the group be current on the Belford Roxo heart tomorrow, the group was shaped in assist of the Lula candidate, sadly lots of those that are right here don’t take part in our group occasions [sic]”.
“Whoever can, allow them to change their telephone profile [sic]”, she stated in one other message below a montage of photographs of Waguinho and Lula. One other day, she wrote: “At all times do not forget that nobody is compelled to go, you must go from the center.”
A couple of hours after Lula’s victory, Waguinho climbed a platform in Heliópolis sq. close to the town heart and spoke: “[Os traidores] they won’t stick with us anymore. And if you already know any Judas, condemn him, for he who has not wept with us within the time of battle can not smile with us within the time of victory.”
The individuals the report spoke to have been fired earlier than the mayor’s mass acquittal by decree on Dec. 31, ordering the departure of all non permanent and non permanent workers within the municipality.
Hundreds of employees in colleges, well being services and different companies stopped hiring, except for docs and dentists. The layoffs sparked an uproar within the metropolis.
Even with out the prospect of a paycheck, most of them proceed to work below the specter of not being rehired within the choice course of that administration launched this month.
In keeping with Professor Oliveira and different former officers, the sort of apply has all the time been a standard apply in Waguinha’s administrations. “I used to be acquitted about 5 occasions and I went again 5 occasions. Yearly it is the identical, take the paper, the legal file. He all the time paid when he needed and the way a lot he needed,” she says.
The RJ Public Prosecutor’s Workplace opened an investigation into the mass layoffs and really helpful this Wednesday (25) to the mayor to difficulty public contracts to stability the ratio between occupied and efficient positions. The imbalance violates “the rules of effectivity, morality and impersonality of public administration,” he says.
In the previous couple of days, in the other way, the town administration has taken again round 400 civil servants by decree, together with individuals who allegedly campaigned for Daniela, in line with an investigation by the newspaper Further.
The needed municipality stated that every one those that supplied companies till 31/12/2022 have their salaries updated together with the thirteenth and that “handovers are going down in line with the wants of every sector”.
He additionally stated that the rehired workers “are technicians who’re immediately linked to core companies” and that they “haven’t got social community administration of servers.”
Administration didn’t say how many individuals have been laid off in October, November and December, or clarify why these laid off continued to work with out pay.
Minister Daniela Carneiro’s sought-after adviser additionally stated the questions needs to be answered by Metropolis Corridor Belford Roxo.