The Government and the unions close an agreement so that the salary of civil servants increases by 11% until 2028

The Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Public Service and the unions have reached the agreement tonight so that the 3.5 million civil servants see their salary increased by 11% in the period 2025-2028. Finally, the representatives of public employees have managed to get the Government to give in on what until now was one of the main obstacles and the increase will be 2.5% in 2025 and 1.5% in 2026, the year in which it will grant another 0.5 additional increase as long as inflation is equal to or greater than 1.5%. This variable half point would be paid in the first quarter of 2027 with retroactive effects.

That additional 0.5% that the unions have managed to extract from the Government is actually deducted from the 2027 increase, which is finally 4.5%. The total improvement would be 11.4% with the carryover effect, which will become effective in January 2028. The signing of the salary agreement will be effective this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. at the headquarters of the Ministry headed by Óscar López. Sources from CSIF – the majority union of public administrations – assure ‘La Información Económica’ that it has also been key to achieving the pact that the text includes improvements in terms of permits and conciliation, social action, retirements for passive classes, in addition to the revisions of the residence supplements and compensation for service reasons being revised upwards next year.

With regard to Muface, the Executive is committed to improving the health quality of the Administrative Mutualism, which also extends to Mugeju and ISFAS, the health of judges and the military, respectively. The negotiation also contemplates adapting the classification of jobs to the real functions; as well as unlocking the 35 hours per week and the regulation of teleworking in the General State Administration (AEG), among other measures. Likewise, the current replacement rate is eliminated to favor the reinforcement of staff in the most needy areas and reduce the hiring of temporary personnel. Precisely, the European Commission has given several warnings to Spain due to the high temporary nature of public employment and has indicated that current Spanish legislation is not sufficient to combat its abuse.

Along the same lines, they undertake to shorten the deadlines for selective processes in public employment offers so that their final resolution does not exceed one year and exclusive and differentiated internal promotion processes for selective courses will be promoted, promoting merit-based competitions through the establishment of open and permanent competition. Another point to highlight is the review throughout 2026 of residence and insularity supplements and compensation for reasons of service, eliminating inequalities between public employees, in addition to the promotion of measures to guarantee equality and non-discrimination, as well as against sexual harassment, the prevention and fight against gender violence. Finally, the remuneration updates for Foreign Labor Personnel will be addressed.

The Ministry started the negotiation last week with a salary offer that implied a 10% improvement in the accumulated salary for the next four years, which is covered by the multi-year agreement. The proposal was flatly rejected by the union organizations, who called it “offensive.” After this, López raised his proposal to 11% between 2025 and 2028 (around 2,000 million euros), emphasizing that this was the limit and that he would not move from there.