The Council of Ministers has approved today that 2.7 million public employees receive a 1.5% increase in their remuneration for this year 2022 on their November payrolls. This salary increase, agreed within the framework of the General Board of Negotiation of the Public Function, it is retroactive, so they will receive the arrears corresponding to the current fiscal year, and it will be consolidated for next year. Therefore, this increase is added to the 2% increase in public remuneration that came into force on January 1 of this year.
As explained by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration, after the Council of Ministers, this additional increase of 1.5% generalized “has an exceptional character, since it is the first time that it occurs”; and it will apply to all public administrations, including autonomous communities and municipalities, “and will take into account the circumstances of the execution of the budget that may occur at this time of the year,” they add. Its consolidation in the current year means that it will be applied to the remuneration in force on December 31, 2021, so, as they insist, the global increase for 2022 will be 3.5%.
The measure was the result of the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration with the CCOO and UGT unions — the CSIF civil servants’ union dropped out of the pact — in which a global salary increase was also agreed for the period 2022, 2023 and 2024 of between 8% and 9.5% to be distributed over the three years.
This pact states that for next year, the salaries of public employees will rise another 2.5%, to which two more variable increases of 0.5% each could be added. The first of these half-point increases would be applied if the accumulated CPI for 2022 and 2023 exceeds 6%, and another 0.5% would be added if the GDP for 2023 exceeds 5.9%.
The following year, 2024, public salaries will rise another 2%, again with a variable clause to increase the salary by 0.5% in the event that the accumulated CPI for 2022, 2023 and 2024 exceeds 8%. This part linked to inflation would be collected retroactively and would also be consolidated.
This salary increase scheme therefore guarantees a minimum increase of 8% (including the 2% already applied last January) spread over three years that could reach 9.5% in this period if the variable parts are activated because inflation continues at high levels or the economy is performing well (it could reach 9.8% if consolidations are taken into account).
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