Escrivá confirms that the Government approves tomorrow the salary increase for civil servants, retroactive from January

He assures that it will be applied “immediately”

SANTANDER/ June 24 () –

The Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Function, José Luis Escrivá, confirmed this Monday that the Council of Ministers will approve tomorrow the 2.5% salary increase for public employees scheduled for this year, which will be collected “immediately” and with retroactive effects from January 1.

When asked by the press in Santander, the minister stated that the fact that the General State Budgets are extended will not be “a problem” in meeting the cost of this salary increase.

“There have never been problems for this. Not the first, nor the second nor the third time that there is a salary increase with an extension of the Government Budget. I do not think it is an element of concern because there is a margin of budgetary flexibility to address this type of situations,” he assured.

Escrivá spoke thus to questions from the press before inaugurating the ‘XVII Inter-autonomous Meeting on Legal Protection of the Patient. New digital biorights in health’, which is held at the Santander headquarters of the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP).

This 2.5% increase for this year is the one foreseen in the agreement that the Government signed with the CCOO and UGT unions, and which contemplates an increase of 2%, plus an additional 0.5% depending on the evolution of the IPCA. .

Specifically, the text of the agreement contemplates a fixed salary increase of 2%, to which another 0.5% would be added depending on the evolution of prices. If the sum of the variation in the IPCA for the years 2022-2024 exceeds the accumulated fixed remuneration increase for those same years (8%), that additional and consolidated remuneration increase of 0.5% will be applied, with effect from January 1 of 2024.

According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), the 2022 IPCA was 5.5%, while that of 2023 ended at 3.3%, which is a total of 8.8%, which exceeds the limit established to apply that additional 0.5% increase. For this reason, the salary of civil servants would have to be raised by 2.5%, even without knowing the inflation data for 2024 as a whole.