The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the salary increase of 0.5% pending for about three million public officials and employees. This increase, which will be applied with a retroactive character since 2024, was a commitment contained in the agreement that the Government reached with the UGT unions and workers' commissions in October 2022 and was conditioned that the accumulated inflation in the last three years remained above 8%, as was finally confirmed in January. With this rise, which is cumulative, in that last triennium the accumulated is around 10% increase, with 2.5% more in 2024.
From the public function areas of CCOO and UGT they had shown this morning their “satisfaction” to the imminent approval of the salary adjustment. In a joint press release they criticized, however, “the delay and insufficiency” of the executive. “This commitment comes with 18 months of delay,” they point out in a statement. In that account, the union organizations total the months of 2024, although it was agreed that this extraordinary increase would be approved according to the January 2025 IPC data and, in any case, with retroactive character.
In addition, these unions say that “it is still pending to fulfill an important part of the framework agreement for a 21st century administration.” In this sense, they list the partial retirement – disagree in the parliamentary process -, the 35 -hour day, the professional classification or the improvement of the remuneration of 2025.
In May, the Minister of Public Function, Óscar López, had promised to pay “shortly”, that additional pending salary increase, which depends on the approval of the Treasury. “This government fulfills all its commitments,” he said during the II Federal Congress of UGT Public Services. However, the trade union organizations had begun to tighten the executive. UGT and CCOO threatened in June with protests if the Executive did not pay this pending increase with retroactive character, considering that there were no “excuses” not to do so. The Independent and Officials Trade Union Central (CSIF) had registered in mid -May a request form in the Moncloa to pay “at once the pending salarial delay.”
