Brazil's Temer puts judiciary pay raises on hold: Estado

Brazil's interim President Michel Temer and congressional allies will postpone planned pay raises for judiciary employees that could cost taxpayers 68 billion reais ($21 billion) by the end of 2018, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper said on Saturday. Estado, citing people who met on Friday with Temer and some cabinet ministers in São Paulo, said the decision stemmed from the need to show commitment to tighter spending policies ahead of the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff, which