• Crisis The Government's promise to pensioners will cost 10,000 million more while the country borders on recession

Officials denounce whenever they have occasion that they accumulate a significant loss of purchasing power since, in 2010, the Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero decreed a historic reduction in the salaries of public workers.

And now, with the galloping increase in inflation,

they fear that this situation will worsen

.

For this reason, they have already transferred to the Executive that it is urgent to begin negotiating salary increases and to mark a multi-year plan, such as the one signed with former Minister Cristóbal Montoro and which led to the notable improvements of 2018, 2019 and 2020.

But the current head of Public Function, María Jesús Montero,

totally rules out initiating that process at this time.

She is not at all on their list of priorities

for her and, furthermore, the Ministry is aware that it will be a complicated matter.

With President Sánchez asking for an income pact in the private sphere to avoid an inflationary spiral, the negotiation with officials seems very tricky.

And although they do not have the weight of pensioners, they are a very relevant pressure group.

For all these reasons, Montero wants to begin to regularize the situation of interim workers first and, later,

accelerate the implementation of teleworking in the General State Administration (AGE)

, whose agreement was signed a year ago.

The present month of April seems key, although the Ministry does not yet dare to set a date.

The minister herself did do so in the Congress of Deputies, when in November of last year she pointed out that the measure would be approved in January and February.

Obviously, those deadlines have not been met.

“In Public Function they say that it will be out shortly, but the truth is that a year has passed and we have not had any news,” Antonio González, from UGT, explains to this newspaper.

“The foundations were laid with the signing in April 2021 with Iceta, on December 15 the draft was ready and the public information process ended on January 4.

We do not understand the reason for this delay, we do not understand what the minister is waiting for to publish them in the BOE.

At the Ministry they tell us that it could be ready in April

», adds Begoña Gil, from CSIF.

Both union representatives also agree that the application of teleworking is not automatic,

that a process of months is necessary for it to be fully active

in the different areas of the Administration.

Currently, officials can telecommute 20% of the day, but with the new decree they will be able to carry out their tasks remotely for three days a week.

"In addition, now, with the rise in gasoline, it is a saving for families because it allows fewer trips," Gil continues.

The spokesperson for the Central Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants emphasizes at this point the need to address salary negotiations.

Her union has already formally requested an extraordinary meeting with the Civil Service, a request that has not been met.

«

We are concerned that there may even be cuts

in the technical and material resources, in the templates or even in the payroll, continues Gil.

We are going to lose a lot of purchasing power

, we need an agreement that guarantees our capacity and the best way to do it is through a multi-year plan like other countries around us do.

In the salary field and also in public job offers, "González closes.

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