The failure of the government in its attempt to approve of the bill to reduce the maximum legal day to 37.5 hours per week is not the only labor headache that is presented to the Executive. In the absence of advances, and even negotiations, they have led CC OO and UGT, on the one hand, and the CSIF official union, on the other, to announce that, if not changing this situation in the coming weeks, they will intensify their protests. “We do not rule out anything,” says sources from this last central.
Salary negotiation for 2025 is probably the priority claim for more than three million public employees. This group has not received any salary increase corresponding to the current year, in which inflation has advanced an accumulated average of 2.5%, with the consequent loss of purchasing power that adds to that already registered in recent years, which CSIF figure in 20% from the cuts of the last crisis.
Any proposal for the salary increase of public employees must pass through the General Bureau of Public Administrations, which has not yet been convened this year for this purpose, nor is its call is expected shortly, according to different sources consulted. From the Ministry of Public Function, they are limited to indicating that “the salary increase for public employees is”, for which the Government has just given its departure gun with the publication in the BOE at the beginning of the month of the ministerial order that sets the guidelines for the different ministries and shows the priorities of the Executive for the elaboration of the public accounts of 2024.
At the moment, the unions say that before the budgetary proposals arrive at the general table, previous meetings are held between the Executive and the union centrals in which different increases or other employment improvements are considered, but neither those meetings have been produced or convened yet. Moreover, sources of UGT and CSIF say that it was not necessary to wait for budgets to be able to undertake salary ups to the collective.
In any case, CSIF has recently directed a letter to the Ministry of Finance after the order of budgetary priorities is published, claiming that enable sufficient economic endowment to carry out the mentioned salary improvements and, in addition, the recovery of 100% of extra payments, where the 2010 cuts are still maintained; or the salary comparison of the same bodies and scales between the different administrations and territories.
The remuneration increases of the last three years have meant an accumulated rise of 9.5% (including 0.5% paid this year, but corresponding to part of the rise of 2024). This was agreed by CC OO and UGT with the government in the framework agreement for an administration of the 21st century, whose validity ended in December 2024, but the unions complain that there are still several pending breaches.
Pending improvements
In fact, the Federations of Public Services of CC OO and UGT have referred to the current situation by directly qualifying the “contempt of Mr. Óscar López, Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Function” towards these centrals, for not attending their claims still pending included in the aforementioned Framework Agreement.
Specifically, the majority unions remind López who are pending compliance issues such as the regulation of partial retirement of labor, official and statutory personnel, the professional classification in accordance with the Spanish system of professional qualifications, 35 hours within the scope of the General State Administration or the situation of the Foreign Service. If no response, CC OO and UGT have announced that they will resume and intensify the mobilization process, initiated last July.
From Public Function they argue that all these negotiations are ongoing. Specifically, sources from this department remember that early partial retirement continues to take steps in its parliamentary process. And also that on July 31 the Secretary of State for Public Function approved a resolution authorizing a specific replacement rate for the partial retirement of the Single Convention of the State Labor Personnel for a total of 1,049 places. Precisely, from UGT they complain that after nine months of negotiation for the V Single Agreement of this group “the advances are insignificant and none of the union proposals have been taken into consideration.”
While with respect to the 35 -hour day in the Administration, in public function they ensure that it also advances, once the possibility of communities applying it was unlocked.
Regarding the improvements in the temporality, which remains anchored above 30% on average in all administrations, with special severity in the autonomic, the unions require, above all, that consolidation and new processes are expedited. In this sense, CC OO and UGT have described “lack of respect” by the Ministry of Public Function in July unexpectedly for an open administration, which has not been negotiated, much less agreed with the unions. This document includes an in -depth reform of personnel selection systems in the public sector that.
The Executive defend themselves and ensure that selective procedures have already been expedited and 93% of the 2024 public employment supply processes have been published. Moreover, they declare that practically all the processes carry out the opposition phase in less than a year, compared to two years or more than, according to the unions, it takes to materialize one of these places.
