Camila Maciel       Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – Brazilian workers got good deals in their salary negotiations during the first half of 2012, resulting in real gains, says the union-linked Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (“Dieese”).

According to Dieese, based on data registered in their own Salary Watch System (SAS”), salary adjustments in 97% of the 370 cases they followed during the period were an average of 2.23% above the National Consumer Price Index (“INPC”). That is the best result since 1996, reports Dieese.

For the sake of comparison, 29% of worker categories had salary increases with real gains of between 2% and 4%, in 2012, compared to 9.7% in 2011. Significantly, according to Dieese, in 2012, 14% of worker categories had salary increases of over 4%.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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