Treasury and unions meet again this Monday to negotiate the salary increase of civil servants

MADRID, 2 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of Finance and the Civil Service unions will meet again this Monday, October 3, to find out the response of the workers to the Government's proposal, with an offer of salary improvement for civil servants of 9.5% between 2022 and 2024.

The approach of the Executive counts, for the moment, with the support of UGT, the doubt of CCOO and the rejection of CSIF.

The portfolio headed by María Jesús Montero has presented public employees with a 9.5% salary increase, which includes a retroactive 1.5% increase for 2022 and review clauses for 2023 and 2024.

Officials have already received a 2% salary increase this 2022, to which that retroactive 1.5% proposed by the Treasury will be added, which adds up to 3.5% for this year.

For 2023, the Executive sets an increase of 2.5%, to which two variables of 0.5% are added. The salaries of public employees would rise an additional 0.5% if the accumulated CPI for 2022 and 2023 exceeds 6%, and another 0.5% would be added if the GDP for 2023 exceeds 5.9%.

Montero's offer is completed with a 2% increase in 2024, again with a clause to increase the salary by 0.5% in the event that the accumulated CPI for 2022, 2023 and 2024 exceeds 8%.

The Treasury began negotiations on Wednesday, with an initial proposal of 8% distributed between 2022 and 2024, which already included the 2% increase that officials have had on their payroll this year.

That first offer from the Executive established a retroactive 1.5% for 2022, which would be added to the 2% salary increase that was already given for this year, followed by 2.5% for 2023 and 2% for 2024.

The unions recognized after that first meeting the "good intention of the Government", although they considered that their proposal was insufficient to cushion the loss of purchasing power of civil servants in recent years. In 2022, the salaries of public employees have increased by 2%, compared to 10.5% in which inflation stood in August.

The Treasury took note of the union demands and returned to the negotiating table on Thursday with a salary improvement of 9.5% spread over three years.

Together with this increase, the Government undertook to establish the elimination of the limitation that prevents the full implementation of the 35-hour weekly working day, the full application of the professional classification of article 76 of the Consolidated Text of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee ( Trebep), the application of the professional classification adapted to the new qualifications (group B) and the repeal of the cuts of Royal Decree Law 20/2012.

Likewise, he alluded to early retirement, the replacement rate, the implementation of equality measures, the union negotiation of the digitization and modernization of Public Administrations, and the negotiation of the attraction and retention of talent in the Administrations. Public.

With regard to the General State Administration (AGE), the Government referred to the effective implementation of teleworking, the negotiation of the content of the Public Function Law of the AGE, the remuneration and collective bargaining for staff of the Foreign Service, to the revision of the model of penitentiary centers and list of jobs (RPT), and to the revision of travel expenses, as reported by sources of the negotiation.

UGT assured at the end of Thursday's meeting that "in all probability" it would approve Montero's offer and its Federal Council ratified it unanimously on Friday. The general secretary of UGT Public Services, Julio La cuerda, maintained that the agreement between the Government and the civil servants will be "good news for all citizens", and not only for the employees of the public administrations.

The union is satisfied with this increase of 9.5% proposed by the Executive and believes that it cushions the impact of "temporary" inflation.

In the opposite position, CSIF maintains, which will arrive at Monday's meeting with the intention of obtaining from the Government an offer with "a double-digit figure", as its secretary of Union Action, Francisco Lama, said after Thursday's meeting. .

Despite its opposition, CSIF undertook to analyze Montero's proposal over the weekend, although it asked the Executive for "one last effort" to reach an agreement that satisfies all parties. In addition, CSIF corrects the Government and reminds it that the global 9.5% that it proposes is not such, since 2% is already included in this year's payroll and it believes it is incorrect to count it within the new increase.

CCOO keeps its letters until this Monday, the date on which it must reply to the Government, as sources from the union have commented to Europa Press.

The coordinator of the Public Area of ​​the CCOO, Humberto Muñoz, stated after Thursday's negotiation that the improvement presented by the Government represented "progress", although at the same time he acknowledged that the union hoped to "go a little further in economic matters and in other things".

The final decision is pending for the decision-making bodies of the union, which will have to decide if they advance in the ratification of the agreement or if they choose to "abandon the path if they consider that sufficient effort has not been made by the Administration", as pointed out Munoz on Thursday.