THE civil servants Faced with their controversial situation, they take up arms. The minister Jose Luis Escrivá promised more than three million civil servants a increase your salary at the end of June. This measure was supposed to be effective the following month, but the situation became complicated and could not be applied for the July payroll.
Time has continued to pass and the salary correction has not arrived in August either. This is why the situation is starting to seriously worry those most affected by this decision, the civil servants. The reason for this delay is that The government only validated the decree that included the 2% increase in Congress in mid-July..
A circumstance that ended up making it not have time to apply it until at least September. A problem both for those affected and for the administration. However, the good news is that this situation seems to be about to be resolved and civil servants hope to receive the promised salary increase this month.
Officials demand raise
Civil servants and workers have not yet received the expected 2% salary increase. A situation that makes them uncomfortable since the administration had promised them that it would arrive in July. But this measure is already two months late since the majority of these employees have not received their “plus”.
The lack of General budgets In the first months of the year, this has clearly affected many workers, but mainly those civil servants. The situation has generated great unrest in the sector, although the government is trying to calm things down by emphasizing that the the increase will be applied retroactively.
Therefore, when it can be paid, it will be on January 1, thus paying the arrears. This delay has drawn criticism from different sectors. The unions have pointed out that the Executive could have decreed this increase at the beginning of the year as was the case for the revaluation of pensions. However, the Ministry of Finance has ruled out applying the 2% increase in January.
Another piece of good news for officials is that the increase, when it comes, could be even higher than that 2%, since may grow by an additional 0.5% depending on the CPI. The Council of Ministers gave the green light on June 26 to this salary increase, including this one in the new decree in the face of the price crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. However, the subsequent validation by the Chamber came only on July 23.
Minister Jose Luis Escriva.
EFE
Given the dates, it was impossible to make the change effective before the end of the month, since these adjustments require a minimum of almost four weeks to be reflected in the workers’ payroll. And August was not the ideal month to integrate these new “pluses” since the validation did not take place before the plenary session scheduled for July 11. In other words, before the closing of the pay slips.
The changes are now expected to arrive with the September payroll.. However, the Treasury has not yet included these increases in the payment forecast for this month. The Tax Agency estimates that the average salary of a civil servant is 34,000 euros and that delays for the first half of the year would reach 300 euros on average.
NOW, The 2% increase in public sector salaries will have an estimated cost of around 4.746 million eurosThe increase in public sector salaries between 2022 and 2024 will exceed 8%, and could even reach 9.8%.
The waiting list of affected civil servants amounts to almost 3 million, including approximately 500,000 public employees belonging to the General State Administration as civil servants, workers and temporary agents, those who serve in ministries, as well as security forces and bodies and civil servants of the autonomous communities and municipal councils.
