unions CCOO And UGT They expect public employees to increase their salaries 0.5% from the month OctoberUnder the salary agreement reached last year with the Government if inflation does not fall significantly. The said increase will be applied to the 2.5% salary increase that has been in effect since January and planned for this year, and will have a retroactive effect from the beginning of the year.
This requires the Manager to pay a ‘paguilla’ to public employees for increases not applied in the first 10 months of the year. This single compensation can range from EUR 48 to EUR 108, depending on the beneficiary’s business category.
Factories celebrated “good news for all public employees” in two separate statements this Wednesday. They declare that they are waiting for the approved September CPI data from the Ministry of Finance for the machines to come into operation, and that they will put the said increase into effect “as soon as possible” from Generalitat, but they do not specify whether this will happen in the coming period. October payslip or later.
Based on two practical examples, the highest-ranking officer with A1 level 30 has a gross monthly salary of 2,413.66 euros this year (in part and without extra pay for three-year terms). For this worker, the 0.5% increase means 12.1 euros more per month than in October and a single additional payment. €108.6. For civil servants in the subcategory (C2 level 15), the 0.5% increase means 5.4 euros more per month than in October and a ‘paguilla’. 48.6 euros.
Ministry of Finance and Public Services agreed with CCOO and UGT –csifThe third union with representation voted against the multi-year wage increase agreement. Although a number of variables linked to inflation and GDP determine the eventual development of payrolls, increases are already planned through 2024.
The agreed increase for this year was 2.5% and an additional point could be added to this figure if the variables were met. Talking about inflation is accepted as it is by the unions. This consisted of the fact that the average harmonized CPI for 2022 and the average CPI for September 2023 should exceed 6%. And the confirmed data for 2022 alone is already 8.3%. In other words, the Government will have to increase the salaries of public workers unless the September CPI breaks the current trend, falls sharply and enters negative territory.
Provisional data on the harmonized CPI for September will be announced to the public by the INE on Thursday, September 28th in advance and definitively on October 13th. It is stated that both the Ministry of Finance and Generalitat have been asked to approve these data for the activation of the machines and the expected increase in the payroll, as well as the capture of the relevant ‘paguilla’.