Public-sector pay in Brazil – Shaming the unshameable – How the bureaucrats rob the taxpayers published by The Economist. “By law, public-sector workers cannot be fired or have their pay cut. But publication of pay details will give the government ammunition during pay negotiations, says Raul Velloso, a public-finance specialist. Salaries are one of the few bits of government spending where the public has a good notion of what constitutes value for money, he thinks.” http://econ.st/M7RlmH
