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1 2 Presidency’s General Secretary Statistics and Research Coordination Southern Federal Administration Sector, Block 8, Lot 1, Building A, Room 241 ZIP CODE 70.070-943 Phone 3043-3675 www.tst.jus.br/estatistica [email protected] Credits Statistics and Research Coordination of the Superior Labor Court Graphic Design and Publishing The Division of Statistical Research and Data of Labor Justice Editorial Review and Supervision Presidencys’s General Secretary of the Superior Labor Court Statistics and Research Coordination of the Superior Labor Court Tradução Tatiana Serpa Guedes Rochelle Nogueira Alves de Melo Thiago César Silva de Almeida Júlio César Moreira Marino Taise de Castro Xavier da Silveira 3 Introduction The Superior Labor Court presents the General Report of Labor Justice with statistical data referring to the lawsuits filed in the three levels of jurisdiction in 2016 and based on current information available in the Administrative and Judicial Information Management System (e- Management) and in the System Decision Support Service. The importance of the General Report, which has been published by this Court since 1946, lies in its commitment to promote wide information transparency on judicial activity, encouraging societal participation in the processes of Labor Justice, towards a more agile and effective system. The General Report major points are summarized below. The Judiciary Labor Force had 47,545 judges and judicial staff, 0.4% lower than the previous year. Its productivity, meanwhile, was 4.3% higher than in 2015. The number of judges and judicial staff per 100,000 habitant in the country has been decreasing consecutively since 2012 and ended the year with values of 1.9 judges and 21 staff members. The Labor Court's per capita cost was R$ 85.16, 5.2% lower than in 2015. In contrast, the Labor Court raised the amount of R$ 3,276,651,454.37 in Income Tax, Social Security, Costs, Fees and fines imposed by Supervisory Authorities, corresponding to 18.7% of its budget and 9.2% higher than the amount collected in 2015. To the Complainants a sum of R$ 24,358,563,331.43 were paid, 30.5% more than in 2015. The amounts paid under judicial settlement represented 37.1% of the total and an increase of 18.0%; The amounts resulting from the implementation of court decisions represented 52.8%, an increase of 33.0%. The number of lawsuits, compared to the previous year, increased by 5.9%, adding, by the end of 2016, 3,700,642 New Cases. For every 100,000 inhabitants of the country, 1,796 people filed at least one lawsuit or appeal in the Labor Courts. In the three instances, Industry and Other Services led the rank of economic activities with the largest numbers of New Cases. Besides these activities, Public Administration was also ranked high in the Superior Labor Court, as well as Trade in Regional and District Labor Courts. The most recurring issues in Labor Courts were: Notice of Termination, the Fine mentioned in the Article No. 477 of the Brazilian Labor Code, the Fine mentioned in the Article No. 467 of the Brazilian Labor Code and the Penalty fine of 40% on the balance of the FGTS (Guarantee Fund for Length of Service) The number of cases to be adjudicated has presented consecutive increases since 2010 and reached the quantitative of 1,803 cases, 5.4% more than in 2015. A total of 4,061,588 lawsuits were adjudicated, 95.0% of the cases received. In the Superior Labor Court, this percentage reached 111.0%; In Regional Labor Courts, 86.8% and in District Labor Courts, 96.4%. The average time between filing a lawsuit and its verdict, in the Superior Labor Court, was 1 year, 6 months and 12 days; In Regional Labor Courts, 8 months and 3 days, and in District Labor Courts, 6 months and 15 days in the Cognizance Stage and 2 years, 8 months and 6 days in the Execution Stage. The percentage of settlements reached the lowest rate since 2006: 38.8%. The Judiciary Regions that reached the highest percentages were 9th and 12th Regions, with 48%; 19th Region, with 46%; 2nd and 23rd Regions, with 44%. The initiated executions and the pending executions of previous years – pending executions and executions on provisional archives - amounted to 2,981,156 cases. Of this total, 661,850 executions were terminated, 22.2%. The Judiciary Regions that achieved the highest percentages of concluded executions compared to the number of pending executions: 11th Region, with 44%; 2nd Region, with 37%; 15th Region, with 33%; 17th Region, with 32%, and 6th Region, with 31%. In the Superior Labor Court, 24.1% of the monocratic decisions were appealed. A motion for clarification was filed in 13.5% of judicial decisions and appeals called “Embargos” were filed in 5.7% of the trials. In the Regional Labor Courts, the internal appealability was of 19.7%; In the District Labor Courts, there were motions requesting clarification in 26.0% of the judicial decisions. In the Superior Labor Court, the appealability to the Federal Supreme Court was of 7.4% of adjudicated cases; In Regional Labor Courts, the number of appeals to a Court of higher instance accounted for 38.0% of trials and monocratic decisions; In District Labor Courts, appeals filed to Regional Labor Courts, in the Cognizance Stage, represented about 60.0% of judicial decisions and, in the Execution Stage, it represented 84.9% of judicial decisions on Stay of Execution requests. JUSTICE IVES GANDRA DA SILVA MARTINS FILHO PRESIDENT OF THE SUPERIOR LABOR COURT 4 SUPERIOR LABOR COURT MINISTRO IVES GANDRA DA SILVA MARTINS FILHO PRESIDENT MINISTRO EMMANOEL PEREIRA VICE-PRESIDENT MINISTRO RENATO DE LACERDA PAIVA CORREGIDOR-JUSTICE MINISTRO JOÃO ORESTE DALAZEN MINISTRO ANTONIO JOSÉ DE BARROS LEVENHAGEN MINISTRO JOÃO BATISTA BRITO PEREIRA MINISTRA MARIA CRISTINA IRIGOYEN PEDUZZI MINISTRO LELIO BENTES CORRÊA MINISTRO ALOYSIO SILVA CORRÊA DA VEIGA MINISTRO LUIZ PHILIPPE VIEIRA DE MELLO FILHO MINISTRO ALBERTO LUIZ BRESCIANI DE FONTAN PEREIRA MINISTRA MARIA DE ASSIS CALSING MINISTRA DORA MARIA DA COSTA MINISTRO FERNANDO EIZO ONO MINISTRO GUILHERME AUGUSTO CAPUTO BASTOS MINISTRO MÁRCIO EURICO VITRAL AMARO MINISTRO WALMIR OLIVEIRA DA COSTA MINISTRO MAURICIO GODINHO DELGADO MINISTRA KÁTIA MAGALHÃES ARRUDA MINISTRO AUGUSTO CÉSAR LEITE DE CARVALHO MINISTRO JOSÉ ROBERTO FREIRE PIMENTA MINISTRA DELAÍDE ALVES MIRANDA ARANTES MINISTRO HUGO CARLOS SCHEUERMANN MINISTRO ALEXANDRE DE SOUZA AGRA BELMONTE MINISTRO CLÁUDIO MASCARENHAS BRANDÃO MINISTRO DOUGLAS ALENCAR RODRIGUES MINISTRA MARIA HELENA MALLMANN 5 Organizational Structure 31/12/2016 Labor Justice is composed of the Superior Labor Court, 24 Regional Labor Courts and 1,587 District Labor Courts. There are 3,955 judges and 43,210 judicial staff. In the Superior Labor Court, there are 26 Justices, 2 Judges that were called to temporarily substitute a Justice who went to the National Council of Justice and another Justice who has been on medical leave. In addition, there are 2,258 judicial staff in the Superior Labor Court. Figure 1. Judicial Regions of Labor Justice. 2016. 1.572 District Labor Courts Labor Justice Second Instance consists of 24 Courts, each one located in a State, except the states of Acre, Roraima, Amapá and Tocantins, which are represented by Courts headquartered in Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará and the Federal District respectively. In the state of São Paulo there are two Courts: one headquartered in the city of São Paulo and another in Campinas. There are 553 Judges and 17,939 judicial staff currently active in 2nd instance Courts. The 1st Instance consists of 1,572 District Labor Courts located in 623 municipalities, with jurisdiction over 5,570 municipalities around the country. There are 3,108 judges and 23,646 judicial staff currently working in first instance Courts. 6 tatistical Indicators S Structure and Expense Labor Justice 2016. - Note: Conventional signal used: ... Numeric data not available. Table 1. Structure and Expenses Statistical Indicators. Labor Indicators. 2015 justice. Statistical Expenses 1. StructureTable and 7 The Prosecution of Lawsuits in Labor Justice. 2015-2016. Note: TST- Superior Labor Court TRTs- Regional Labor Courts VTs- District Labor Courts (Cognizance Stage) VTs- District Labor Courts (Execution Stage) 8 L itigation Statistical Indicators Labor Justice 2016. - Table 3. Litigation Statistical Indicators Statistical 3.in2007 Litigation LaborTable Justice. 9 Adjudicated Cases compared to the number of Lawsuits Filed Labor Justice Figure 2 Adjudicated Cases compared to the number of Lawsuits filed in Labor Justice. Lawsuits Filed; 4.273.382 Adjudicated Cases 4.061.588 95,04% Adjudicated Cases compared to pending Trials Figure 3. Adjudicated Cases compared to pending Trials in Labor Justice. 2016. Pending Trials 6.552.221 Adjudicated Cases 4.061.588 61,99% 10 New Cases by Economic Activity Labor Justice Figure 4. Ranking of the 10 most recurring economic activities in Labor Justice. 2016. 11 Most Recurring Issues Labor Justice Figure 5. Most Recurring Issues in Labor Justice. 2016. Note: CLT - Brazilian Labor Code FGTS - Guarantee Fund for Length of Service 12 Labor Justice Revenue Figure 6. Revenue Collected in Labor Justice. 2015-2016. 2015 R$ 2.999.281.043,06(*) 2016 R$ 3.276.647.754,45 (*) Number updated by the Broad Consumer Price +9,2% Index (IPCA). Table 4. Revenue Collected in First Instance Courts. 2016. (in Brazilian Real). Nota: (*) Valores restituídos no TST: R$ 3.699,92. Amount paid to the Plaintiffs Figure 7. Amounts paid to the Plaintiffs. 2015-2016. +30,5% 2015 2016 (*) Number updated by the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA) Figure 8. Amounts paid to the Plaintiffs. 2016. R$ 9.028.726.058,84 R$ 12.871.673.916,33 R$ 2.458.163.356,26 Judicial Payment Judgment Execution Settlements Spontaneous 13 Settlements Figure 9.