The meeting between the government and unions to raise the salaries of more than 3.5 million employees ended without an agreement, after five hours of negotiation. Public service maintains its position Salary offer 11% For the period 2025-2028 and promises … An increase for the year of 2.5% in December Retroactive to Januaryalthough she did not finish convincing UGT, CC.OO. And CSIF, who understand that there is more space. The two parties are scheduled to hold a new meeting on Wednesday.
As ABC has already reported, the latest offer from the CEO is 11%, but with the condition that the increases are capped in the first two years. cannot exceed 4%which still causes reluctance on the part of power plants. It remained unknown on Monday how the remaining 7% would be distributed between the past two years and whether the increase would be constant or part of it would be subject to compliance with some variables such as GDP. The proposed increase will finally be fixed, unlike the last agreement, which according to CC.OO. The total salary increase could reach 11.45% in the four years as payrolls decline.
In addition to salary improvements, the parties are negotiating changes in working conditions, including the offer by the Public Service to design a human resources planning mechanism to gradually replace salaries. Replacement rateWhich will be based on expectations of employee needs in the public sector; A new scheme that can be used to calculate and approve future public employment offers. The condition set by CSIF is to completely abolish replacement fees.
Corrosion of citizen service
Another offer made by the Executive was to reduce the maximum deadlines for implementing staff selection processes to one year. These activities have currently been going on for more than two years, and they do so at a time of high volume RetirementThis situation leaves many public services suffering from a lack of staff and affects the quality of services provided to citizens. This is the case of SEPE or Social Security, organizations in which achieving designation is a matter that requires a lot of perseverance.
At the moment, the only union that has made clear its support for the government’s proposal, both in terms of salaries and employment, is UGT, although it is from CC.OO. They tended to reach an agreement with the executive branch after it improved 2 billion euros His first plan. The union that remained the most conservative is the Civil Servants Union, which confirmed that if the Public Service maintains its intention that the maximum accumulated increase in 2025 and 2026 will be 4%, not only will the agreement not be signed, but the mobilization that began at the beginning of the month will resume.
30% time frame
The major absence in meetings is temporal absence, which will be addressed in a specific group that does not yet have a date. The stabilization law committed to in Brussels is set out in the recovery plan sent to the European Commission 8% temporary employment rate In various Spanish departments. Today this rate is barely moving, remaining stagnant at around 30%, more than double the rate for private companies, and for this reason, among other things, it has cost Spain to reduce its loans. one billion In European funds.