President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned a bill that opens a special credit of R$ 7.3 billion for the payment of the national minimum wage for nursing workers. The measure was published in the Official Journal of the Union this Friday (12), International Nursing Day.
The new floor for nurses hired under the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) regime is R$ 4,750, as defined by Law No. 14,434. Nursing technicians receive at least 70% of this amount (R$ 3,325) and nursing assistants and midwives, 50% (R$ 2,375). The floor applies to workers in the public and private sectors.
Data from the Federal Nursing Council account for more than 2.8 million professionals in the sector in the country, including 693,400 nurses, 450,000 nursing assistants and 1.66 million nursing technicians, in addition to about 60,000 midwives.
