• Public Function The Government raises the salary of officials but passes the bill to communities and municipalities

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Officials of the General State Administration (AGE) will receive "the additional salary compensation of 1.5% to mitigate the impact of inflation"

already in November

.

It is the retroactive increase that the Government agreed for this year, with which the 2022 rise will be 3.5% and which is part of the agreement signed with the UGT and CCOO and rejected by the Central Independent Union and Officials (CSIF).

But the public workers of the communities and municipalities are not guaranteed to receive this payment immediately.

In fact, there is not even a guarantee that they will charge it this year and

they will have to wait even until March 2023

, the maximum term that the Government grants to these areas of the Administration.

The Council of Ministers approved this additional increase yesterday, and sources from the Ministry of María Jesús Montero confirm to this newspaper that more time has been given to autonomous communities and municipalities to comply with this commitment, a decision that comes after

complaints from the regions ruled by the Popular Party

.

The Government agreed with the unions on this increase, which, however, must be applied largely by the communities.

And it is that the

2.7 million public workers

who will receive this increase, 1.6 million belong to the communities.

The town councils, for their part, have close to 600,000 employees, and a little over half a million carry out their work in the AGE.

The regions complained because, in addition to not having a voice at the negotiating table, the payment must be made at the end of the year, when many budgets are committed and even exhausted.

"

And how is this paid now

?" Some regional governments asked themselves.

Public Function responded that the salaries and payroll of public workers are paid by each Administration, and the concession that the Ministry is now making is to give them a longer period of time so that they can pay the increase with next year's funds.

«The rise will be reflected in the payroll from November,

paying as arrears

the corresponding increase from January to October of the current year.

The retroactive nature of the measure forces this to be the case, since the initial increase of 2% included in the General State Budgets for 2022 has been in force since January 1 of this year, "explains Public Function for Administration officials General.

“The norm also establishes specific rules so that the Autonomous Communities and Local Entities can materialize the payment”, deepens the Public Function, including “the incorporation of the salary increase to the credits of the expense budgets for the next financial year” and that greater margin of time .

This, however, will mean that in

the same year they must pay two salary increases

: the additional 1.5% this year, and the 2.5% fixed plus a variable point next year that depends on the CPI and GDP. nominal.

The multi-year increase is completed with an increase of 2% in 2024, which could reach 2.5% also depending on the evolution of prices.

In total, the maximum is 9.5%

, always counting on the 2% that was already applied at the beginning of this year.

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