The Government plans to move forward tomorrow in the Council of Ministers the rise in salaries promised to officials since last year and guaranteed last week by Iván Redondo as chief of staff of the presidency of Pedro Sánchez.

As EL MUNDO advanced last Friday, Redondo addressed the CSIF officials' union last week to inform him that the promised salary increase would take place "as soon as possible and with retroactive effects." Sources familiar with the process indicate that the Government's intention is to carry out this 2% increase in compensation to approximately 2.6 million civil servants and public employees through a royal decree, as it did last time, in December 2018

The royal decree, of an urgent nature, would serve to try to include in the list of January the rise demanded by the officials, although there are doubts that it can be achieved. Sources of the Administration indicate that the ordinary procedure for the elaboration of payrolls in the civil service concludes for the middle of the month, so other formulas such as the payment in a different payment that fulfilled the retroactivity commitment assumed by Redondo and Carolina Darias would be considered , Minister of Public Function .

The measure would also close a growing tension between the Government and officials, filling a claim that they have maintained for months. Throughout the election campaign, Sánchez guaranteed the increase in pensions and assured that he would undertake a new rise in the Minimum Interprofessional Salary (SMI) but it was less resounding with the salaries of the officials. Last Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved a 0.9% increase in the pensions that it had promised and suspended that of the Public Service. The next day is when the unions of officials, who had announced mobilizations if their new pay was not approved in January , received from Moncloa the commitment to the salary increase that has finally reassured them. In this way, the relations of the Executive with the officials for their social work or, in the specific case of public workers, the negotiation of new agreements on working conditions or more thorny matters such as the evaluation of the performance of the workers are better directed.

As a whole, the salary increase amounts to 2.30% (2%, plus 0.30% of additional funds) . If the equalization of the State Security Forces and Bodies is added to this measure, the cost amounts to 3,264 million euros.

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