civil servants expenses and the impacts on the implementation and efficiency of public policies

precaurios labor and new challenges in the digital public administration.

Abstract

This article aims to provoke reflection on the argument of the expenses in the Brazilian civil service in recent decades, seeking to point out elements that indicate that, despite eventually configuring measures aimed at efficiency, certain agreements implied, according to a portion of the national doctrine, a real precariousness of the public service in several areas, with a negative impact on the achievement and efficiency of public policies. In a brief retrospective, we will critically present the likely consequences suffered by the Brazilian public service as a result of the influxes of a global social context in which work, on the pretext of becoming more flexible and dynamic, headed for the way of precariousness. It will also point out, as a catalyst effect, the spending limit imposed by the Fiscal Responsibility Law (Federal Complementary Law nº 101/2000), which may have contributed, indirectly, to the described phenomenon, encouraging practices of partnerships which did not constitute reciprocal gains, but implied a clear weakening of several essential public services. Therefore, it is intended to emphasize that many projected public policies did not obtain, and cannot succeed, without the existence of trained public agents necessary for their implementation and maintenance, not being consistent with the constitutional text the mere rhetoric of cutting expenses that dialogue with the needs of the Brazilian population. In addition, the objective is to point out how this scenario can be significantly aggravated in the face of the so-called "Digital Administration", since the discourse based exclusively on the economy of public resources can lead to the lack of a minimum state apparatus and the disproportionate aid to the private initiative.