Civil servants will have the salary increase after Easter and before the Budgets are approved

Daniel Viaña Madrid

Martha Belver

Madrid

Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-23:00

Civil servants will receive this year's salary increase

after Easter

, that is, in the month of April and before the 2024 General State Budgets (PGE) are approved. And this will be because the PSOE and Sumar have included the 2% improvement agreed for 2024 as an amendment included in the anti-crisis decree.

Parliamentary sources indicate that the forecast is for this action to be approved

in the second week of April

, so that will be the moment from which public workers will obtain the increase.

The date, in any case, represents an advance compared to what was marked until now since the increase was initially linked to the Budget bill, whose approval will arrive, at least, within two months.

And that is as long as the Government manages to convince all its partners, including Junts, which has already announced that a new negotiation will now begin after the amnesty.

The new measure, therefore, allows officials to advance the increase but also protects it in case the accounts do not go ahead.

«The framework agreement for a 21st century Administration, signed on October 19, 2022, establishes a multi-year framework for salary increases for employees serving Public Administrations that extends between the years 2022 and 2024. (...) Since it has been necessary to extend the General State Budgets for the year 2023, in order to fulfill the commitments assumed,

the approval of this norm is necessary, which makes it possible to apply the increase

in the remuneration of personnel serving the public sector," he explains. the amendment that the two government partners registered last week in Congress.

When the increase is applied, officials will record that 2% improvement, which can still increase by 0.5% depending on inflation, and which is in addition to the 3.5% improvements they recorded in both 2022 and in 2023. In this last year, 0.5% was also linked to the evolution of inflation and another half point additional to growth.

The second payment was confirmed after knowing the National Accounts for last year and was confirmed in the Council of Ministers last month.

However, CSIF denounced yesterday that the workers of the General State Administration (AGE) have not yet received the improvement.

Asked about this situation, Executive sources affirm that the forecast is that the additional income, and with retroactive effects,

will be made in the next payroll

.

"Hot spring"

The complaint from the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Central came through its president, Miguel Borrá, and during a press conference in which the 10th National Congress of the union, which will take place next Thursday, was presented.

In that same forum, the head of CSIF threatened the Government with a spring of mobilizations if it does not begin to negotiate measures such as the next salary increase;

specific actions to "end high temporary employment in Public Administrations";

or the "implementation of 35 hours, a commitment included in the 2018 agreements and which is still pending implementation in different administrations."

"Either there begins to be real negotiation in the public administrations or we predict

a hot spring for this Government because CSIF will take to the streets

," warned Borrá, who also denounced that the political instability in Spain is "overshadowing absolutely everything" and leaving no room to "real negotiation" between the Government and unions.

«The feeling we have is that since everything is subject to the Amnesty Law being passed and what we have conveyed to the minister [José Luis Escrivá] and the Secretary of State [Clara Mapelli] is that the political times are going for a side, but the public services that our citizens receive cannot wait for that time," stressed the president of CSIF.