Civil servants of the General Administration of the State will already receive additional salary compensation of 1.5% in November to mitigate the impact of inflation. Public workers in the autonomous communities and municipalities were not guaranteed to receive this payment so immediately, but they found a solution.
The multi-year wage increase that the Government has decreed for civil servants and public workers has a retroactive part. 1.5%, in particular, intended to try to contain this year’s wage loss, and which adds to the 2% that public wages had already increased at the beginning of the year.
The government has agreed with the trade unions on this increase, which however must be applied largely from the communities. It should be remembered that, of the 2.7 million public workers who will receive this increase, 1.6 million belong to communities.
The municipal councils, for their part, pile up nearby 600,000 employeesand more than half a million carry out their work in the General Administration of the state.
They had to wait to harvest until March
Until now there was not even a guarantee that the officials of the autonomies and consistories would withdraw it this year and they were told that they would have to wait even until March 2023the maximum period that the Ministry of Finance has granted to these areas of the Administration.
The Regions complained because, in addition to not having had a voice At the negotiating table, payment must be made at the end of the year, when many budgets are busy and even exhausted. But the Public Function then replied that the salaries and payslips of public employees are paid by each Administration.
The state will allow them to borrow
However, as Confidential Digital has learned from government sources, the state has now decided authorize autonomous communities formalize new long-term borrowing operations, or allocate resources to the additional financing mechanisms for the equivalent necessary to make the salary increase for public sector personnel effective by the end of the year.
El credit extraordinary the credit supplement approved for finance the salary increase the addition to the officers can be incorporated into the corresponding credits of the expenditure budgets of the immediately following fiscal year.
Exceptionally, local authorities that they do not have sufficient resources To finance credit changes, they can also formalize a loan to the extent necessary with the Local Authority Financing Fund.
The expenditure reaches 3,000 million
The additional cost, they continue, can also come to 200 million euros in the case of communities with a greater number of public employees. This amount, predictably, should be paid by the end of the year, although the unions add that there could be differences depending on the area of administration.
Yes effectively is before 2023, the payment would be borne by this year’s budgets, which are practically exhausted; and if it is at the beginning of the next financial year, the accounts of that same year will have to face two increases: the additional 1.5% and the fixed 2.5% plus a variable point for the following year.
