LAW RESERVE SEATS

President Dilma Rousseff signed in last on 09/06 the law reserving 20% of seats in federal procurement for blacks. The standard is temporary, effective for 10 years, enough to approximate the composition of the federal public administration percentages considered in the overall Brazilian population servers period. The President Rousseff said he expects similar position at state and private enterprises. 

The black candidates to be approved shall meet the criteria set out in the announcement with the score and other requirements indicated. Change the sort order for the benefit of black candidates. 

This is the second law with affirmative action against racial discrimination signed by President Dilma. The Quota Law in universities and federal institutes, Law no. 12.711/2012, was the first; based on the existence of a large discrepancy between the percentage of federal civil servants, 30%, and the black population in the country, representing 50.7%. 

Meets up with Law 12.288/2010, which established the Statute of Racial Equality, forcing public authorities to promote and ensure equal opportunities actions in the market for the black population. 

OUR OPINION 

The measure generates controversy, including by the business community understands that there is leakage meritocracy. 

Already manifest in other published studies that there is good deal of prejudice in regulation, plus the ability to place the citizen at the origin, skin color or ethnicity; the reservation of quotas, the way it is treated, means accepting failure favored segments of the benefit; after all, for "access to higher levels of education ..." there should be healthy competition, Constitution, inc. V, Art. 208.