- Salaries.The Government updates the payroll of officials with a 2% rise and also enters arrears
The Board of Extremadura has announced today to the Public Service unions that it does not plan in the short term to apply the 2% salary increase to public employees approved at the national level in a Decree Law by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which has effects retroactive to January 1 of this year.
In a "tense" meeting of the General Negotiating Table of the Administration convened this Friday in Mérida, the vice president and adviser of Finance and Public Administration, Pilar Blanco-Morales , has calculated that if this payment is made (which has been made in January and that will not be reflected in the payrolls of February) would amount to around 50 million euros to the regional coffers, an amount that would "force" the Board to make other "adjustments" to the 65,000 officials in Extremadura to comply with "the rules of stability," according to Blanco-Morales.
The decision is linked to the obligation of the Extremaduran socialist government to present an Economic-Financial Plan that includes the causes that led it to close 2019 with a deficit of around 1% of GDP and apply measures to comply with the conditions of stability. Other sources consulted point out that the Board's accounts are literally in "technical bankruptcy."
These "cuts" - according to the unions - would not apply the agreements reached at the General Negotiating Table of the year 2018 , and which were specified in the payment of the professional career and its development to the public employees of the General Administration and the of the Extremadura Health Service (SES), in the reduction of the working day for secondary school teachers or in the reduction of the working day to 35 hours. These agreements are at "serious risk" of not taking effect.
For Benito Román , president of CSIF, a majority union in the Extremadura Public Service, the position of the Board is an "order" to public employees because "the salary increase has to be paid yes or yes because it is an approved decree-law at the national level, for what they want, deep down, is to make cuts in the recovery of labor rights that, with much effort, we have achieved in recent times. " In this sense, Roman criticizes that it is always public employees "who have to suffer the cuts when a crisis comes or simply because those who are governing do not know how to manage, and that is inadmissible." "They have left us no other way out than to go out on the street after a long time of silence and not receiving any kind of explanation and to find ourselves today with an inadmissible surprise and disappointment because we cannot allow public employees to return to being the pagans of this situation".
In this way, CSIF Extremadura has announced that if the Board does not change its position by Wednesday, it will hold a concentration of public employees: "These are agreements signed in the last legislature, and the agreements are to be fulfilled," criticized Benito Román . To these mobilizations could be added CCOO while UGT will wait for new meetings to decide its final position. Precisely, the Board has reconvened the unions next Wednesday, the same day it has convened the CSIF-Extremadura concentration.
BOARD
Meanwhile, the Vice President of Extremadura has indicated that the Board "wants to assume" the salary increase but has also specified that this decision is "subject to compliance with the conditions of stability", as contemplated in the agreement signed in March 2018 by then Finance Minister Cristóbal Montoro and the unions, from which the Royal Decree now approved by the Pedro Sánchez Executive is derived.
For this reason, Blanco Morales has pointed out that "it is necessary to address adjustments in other improvements that public employees in Extremadura have in order to enable this 2 percent rise to reach all" community officials ", so it has called unions to "dialogue and negotiation" to specify what issues it would affect.
In addition, it has put in context this salary increase to public employees at a time of "uncertainty" worldwide and "clear breach" of the stability objectives by the Autonomous Administration, which plans to close 2019 with a deficit of around 1 percent of GDP.
During the meeting, the CSIF union affected the Board that in regional budgets exceeded they have grown 3.6 percent over last year, reaching for the first time more than 6,000.6 million euros, accounts approved with the majority absolute of the government of Fernández Vara. And in these budgets, no cuts to public employees are contemplated. On the other hand, for the vice president, who would be increased by 7.6%, Chapter I of Personnel "is not acceptable."
In any case, Blanco Morales has offered the unions to continue the negotiation, and in this regard has been confident that before next Wednesday they can approach positions.
CCOO AND UGT
Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Public Area of CCOO-Extremadura, Francisco Jiménez, has described as a "jug of cold water" this Friday's meeting, while the agreements signed with the Board in 2018 that included the recovery of rights of the Public employees are "conditioned" by the 2% salary increase.
Thus, CCOO has "doubts" that this salary increase can be applied given the "serious difficulties" posed for this by the Regional Administration. "They have raised a very difficult situation that public employees will not understand."
"Vara called us to sign an agreement in 2018," said Jiménez, who added that now "it will not be fulfilled" and also the salary increase "is hanging by a thread according to the information given by the Board." Thus, for CCOO, the 2 percent salary increase is "inalienable" and the 2018 agreement "must also be complied with."
For his part, José Ignacio Luis Cansado, Secretary of Trade Union Action of the Federation of Employees and Employees of Public Services of UGT Extremadura has shown his "surprise" to be in what he thought would be a "routine meeting" with the breach of the agreed remuneration increases.
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