CSIF denounces a six-month delay in the salary increase for civil servants and announces protests against the “paralysis” of the Government
The CSIF union, the most representative in public administrations, demands that the Government approve “immediately” the 2% salary increase for this year agreed with the Ministry of Finance. The salary improvement agreed for 2024 should have come into force with the General State Budgets, but the absence of public accounts already causes a delay of half a year in its application.
“We have been waiting for six months for the salary increase that corresponds to this year to be applied to us. We demand it immediately and by decreeas Sánchez already did when he came to power in his first term.” This is what Miguel Borra, president of CSIF, expressed in a press conference held this Monday in which the union denounced the situation of “paralysis” experienced by the public administration due to parliamentary instability.
Borra has announced that the union will gather at the headquarters of the Ministry of Finance – which is the one who holds the key to the rise together with Public Function, now in the hands of Escrivá – next Thursday, June 27, to protest. A mobilization in which also It will be required to expedite public employment offers and implement pending reforms that affect public employees., but that have been left in a drawer due to administrative paralysis, denounces the union. If these demands are not achieved, the union predicts that the conflict will “worsen” after the summer, with more protests in different parts of the country.
The Government already announced in mid-March that the salaries of public employees will be increased even if Budgets have not been presented. The Executive chose to process the increase as an amendment to the decree of urgent measures to fight the crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. However, The initiative has been paralyzed for three months, although the Public Service Department trusts that it will move forward “soon.”
From Workers’ Commissions have joined the CSI demandF and have also demanded that the 2% increase agreed for this year be applied now. “The parliamentary situation that has led to a budget extension cannot be an impediment when other increases have been made with the same budget extension,” the union maintains in a statement released this Monday.
Towards a new salary agreement
The salary improvement demanded by the unions is part of a three-year agreement that was closed in 2022, in the midst of the inflationary maelstrom, and that concludes this year. Six months into 2024, A new framework for salary increases has not yet begun to be negotiated for the next few years.
In this sense, the president of CSIF has demanded that the Government sit down to negotiate a new agreement that is not only salary, but that deals with issues such as the financing of Muface, the career path, the evaluation of the performance of public employees and that establishes how to recover the purchasing power lost since 2010. Miguel Borra has stressed that if the Government intends exhaust the entire legislature, the pact should be for three years.
Meeting with Escrivá about the interims
Another of the topics that have been discussed during the press conference is how the situation of interim public employees in fraud of law remains after the latest ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The Luxembourg court again noted that converting these workers into permanent ones can be a valid solution to compensate for the damage caused by the abuse of temporality.
For CSIF, the decision represents a new slap on the administration’s wrist for abuses in temporality andThe solution must be to end replacement rates, an indicator that limits the hiring of public employees to a percentage of the casualties that occur. In this regard, the union has also demanded to speed up the selection processes and threatens to take administrations that fail to comply with the established deadlines to court. In any case, CSIF has requested a meeting with Minister Escrivá to find out the Government’s interpretation of the CJEU ruling.
