The civil servants of the General Administration of the State will receive already in November the additional wage compensation of 1.5% to mitigate the impact of the inflation. Public workers in the autonomous communities and municipalities were not guaranteed to receive this payment so immediately, but they have found a solution.
The multiannual wage increase that the Government has decreed for civil servants and public workers has a retroactive part. 1.5%, specifically, intended to try to limit the salary loss this year, and which is added to the 2% that public salaries were already increased at the beginning of the year.
The Government agreed with the unions on this increase, which, however, must be applied in largely by the communities. It must be remembered that, of the 2.7 million public workers who will receive this increase, 1.6 million belong to the communities.
City councils, for their part, accumulate close to 600,000 employeesand more than half a million carry out their work in the General State Administration.
They had to wait to collect until March
Until now, there was not even a guarantee that the officials of the autonomies and consistories would collect it this year and they were told that they would have to wait even until March 2023the maximum term 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 negotiation table, payment must be made at the end of the year, when many budgets are committed and even exhausted. But Public Function then replied that the salaries and payroll of public workers are paid by each Administration.
The state will allow them to borrow
However, as Confidencial Digital has learned from government sources, the State has now decided authorize the autonomous communities to formalize new long-term debt operations, or allocate resources charged to the additional financing mechanisms for the equivalent amount necessary to make the salary increase effective for public sector personnel before the end of the year.
El credit extraordinario the approved credit supplement for finance salary increase addition to officials may be incorporated into the corresponding credits of the expense budgets of the immediately following fiscal year.
Exceptionally, local entities that do not have enough resources To finance the credit modifications, they may also formalize a loan in the necessary amount with the Fund for Financing Local Entities.
Expenditure reaches 3,000 million
The additional cost, they continue, can even reach at 200 million euros in the case of communities with a greater number of public employees. This amount, predictably, should be paid before the end of the year, although the unions add that there may be differences depending on the scope of the administration.
Yes effectively is before 2023, the payment would be charged to this year’s budgets, which are practically exhausted; and if it is at the beginning of the next financial year, the accounts for that same year will have to face two increases: the additional 1.5% and the 2.5% fixed plus a variable point for the next year.