The Government announced that it will raise the salary of civil servants by 2% next year. The Government of Sánchez accumulates an increase of 7.15% in the salary of public employees since 2019. According to the calculations of the unions, this new increase will cost the budget about 3,000 million euros.
As sources from Moncloa pointed out this Tuesday, the Executive will allow the creation of net employment by raising five points each of the replacement rates. At 105%, the one that is applied in general; to 115%, that of the priority sectors, and to 120%, that of the State security forces and bodies and the local administration.
The Secretary of State for Public Function, Lidia Sánchez, met on Tuesday with the representative trade union organizations in the Public Administrations UGT, CSIF, CIG and ELA, with the absence of CCOO, which criticized that it is not a real negotiation but the transfer of a decision already taken. The meeting was also attended by the managing directors of Public Function of the Autonomous Communities and representatives of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
UGT criticized the salary increase proposed by the Government of 2% because, in his opinion, it will mean “a new loss of purchasing power that will be added to that experienced this year.” In a statement, the union assures that it has transferred to the Government its rejection of the salary increase presented this Tuesday by the Ministry of Finance at the general table of Public Administrations and that it will be included in the general budgets of the State for 2022.
At the end of September, the Congress and the Senate approved their budgets with the approval of increases of 2% for officials of the General Courts, a figure that usually coincides with the rest of increases in public administration. According to the last statistical bulletin of personnel at the service of the Public Administrations, as of January 1, 2021, the public employee workforce amounted to 2,710,405 people, of which 53.78% are concentrated in the autonomous communities, the 21.39% are in the local administration, 18.98% belong to the State Administration and 5.85% work in the Universities.
This is the seventh consecutive year that public wages have risen, after another six years of freezing and justified cuts in the previous crisis. In 2010 the first cut came, of 5%, and in 2012 it was the second with the abolition of the extraordinary Christmas pay, which was later returned. The freeze was applied for five years (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and it was not until 2016 that civil servants’ salaries were increased again.
The unions reject the increase
CSIF showed its rejection of the Government’s proposal for a 2% salary increase in 2022 for civil servants, since it considers it “insufficient” in relation to inflation, for which it requires the Executive to compensate public employees “for the loss accumulated purchasing power.
This was indicated in a statement after the meeting held by the unions from 9:00 a.m. with the Secretary of State for Public Administration, Lidia Sánchez, within the framework of the General Board of Public Administrations, in which the Government presented the representatives of the unions the wage increase and the replacement rate that will be included in the Budget project.
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