Fachin Creates CNJ Working Group to Audit Judges' Penduricalhos

Overview

• The portaria that Edson Fachin signed on Friday establishes a CNJ working group with a 180‑day mandate to map, identify and classify all remuneratory and indemnity payments to magistrates and to propose regulatory and legislative solutions.
• The group will include CNJ staff and designated representatives from the National Council of the Public Ministry, the Federal Public Defender, the Attorney‑General’s Office, Congress, the Executive and the Federal Audit Court, plus external experts and magistrates.
• Its task is to separate which payments are truly indemnities and which function as salary, assess the legal norms behind each rubric and measure how those payments affect the constitutional pay ceiling.
• Preliminary CNJ audits found a broad scale of the problem, with nearly 700 distinct retroactive penduricalhos logged and isolated cases where magistrates received more than R$1 million in a single month.
• The move builds on STF limits set in March and the CNJ’s May decision to adopt a single standardized payslip, and it could lead to tighter transparency rules, standardized nomenclature and a draft law to curb pay practices that have skirted the constitutional ceiling.