The salary differences between officials who work for the General State Administration (AGE) and those of the autonomous communities and city councils are already bleeding. In a report published today, the main union of public employees, CSIF, has revealed that the former earn on average 8,000 euros less per year than the latter for doing the same work.
For months now, State employees have been at war with the Government over the working conditions and workloads endured by officials in all areas. In a press conference this morning in which it announced a ‘hot’ autumn of mobilizations, CSIF recalled the reforms that are “entrenched” in the Social Security, Tax Agency, Labor Inspection or the SEPE. It must be remembered that this last organization will face a personnel crisis at the beginning of the year with the assumption of powers regarding the Minimum Living Income, a management for which it now does not have sufficient human resources, according to the union.
CSIF estimates the AGE’s deficit at 43,000 positions corresponding to the period 2010-2020, which is aggravated by the fact that 60 percent of the workforce will retire over the next ten years; “This circumstance endangers the sustainability of our Administration,” the officials say.
The list of demands of public employees is long: new remuneration agreement, salary equalization, offer of public employment without replacement rate, completing the stabilization process, improvements in retirement, a 35-hour day throughout the State or the improvement of healthcare in Muface are the main ones.
As has already been said, among all of them, the problem of salary differences with employees of other administrations stands out, especially CC.AA. and City Councils.
In a report revealed today, Csif has revealed that AGE employees earn on average 8,000 euros less per year than workers in the Autonomous Communities and municipalities for the same work. This figure is the average of the remuneration inequalities suffered by civil servants (8,690 euros less annually on average) and staff (7,380 euros less).
This range of salary differences varies depending on groups and categories. In the case of civil servant personnel it varies between 11,826 and 4,349 euros, and in the case of labor personnel it is between 10,087 and 3,523 euros.
The Csif study also calculates what it would cost the state to catch up with the rest of the administrations and achieve salary equalization: it would be about 1,487 million distributed between 2025, 2026 and 2027, until achieving full salary equality in 2028.
The CSIF study also shows that, comparing the initial wage bill since 2010 with that which would result from applying the CPI increase, public employees have lost 4,721 million euros in purchasing power.
Furthermore, it so happens that every year around 5,000 million euros are re-instated corresponding to the 57,134 job relations (RTP) positions that are vacant.
The study also provides territorialized data, from which it appears that there are wide differences when it comes to the autonomous community. There is only one common denominator, and that is that those who are employed by the AGE always lose.
The greatest pay difference occurs in the Basque Country, where an employee of the General State Administration earns an average of 15,805 euros less per year for the same work as a Basque Government worker. The difference reaches 20,692 euros if the AGE employee is compared with a counterpart from the Bilbao City Council.
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