The Government needs a certification from the INE on the 2023 GDP data to be able to approve the increase
MADRID, 4 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -
The salaries of more than three million public employees will increase by an additional 0.5% from 2023, since the National Institute of Statistics (INE) has announced this week that the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year reached 2.5%, exceeding the Government's estimates by one tenth.
Once the 2023 GDP progress data is published by the INE, the Council of Ministers will have to approve the application of this additional 0.5% increase, which will be effective "practically automatically" once published in the Official Gazette of the State (BOE).
At the moment, the Government first needs a certification from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) on the GDP data and without that document it cannot go to the Council of Ministers.
In any case, thanks to the agreement signed by the Government, CCOO and UGT in October 2022, this additional 0.5% increase will be applied retroactively from January 1, 2023.
The agreement established a salary increase for civil servants in 2023 of 2.5%, which included two additional increases of 0.5% each, linked to inflation and economic growth.
Already last October, the increase of an additional 0.5% in the salary of all public employees was approved, with retroactive effects from January 1, 2023, because the IPCA for 2022 and 2023 - until September - exceeded 6%.
This week the second additional increase of 0.5% linked to the evolution of economic growth was confirmed, which will soon be approved by the Council of Ministers, after formal certification by the INE.
As sources from the Executive have confirmed to Europa Press, this week the Government has confirmed that the conditions are met to apply the increase, but the approval is left for another Council of Ministers, which is held every Tuesday, although it has not yet been specified which one.
Once approved, the salary of public employees would have risen another 3.5% in 2023, the same as in 2022.
For this year, the text of the agreement contemplates a fixed salary increase of 2% based on the salaries already increased in the previous year.
Additionally, if the sum of the variation in the IPCA for the years 2022-2024 exceeds the accumulated fixed remuneration increase for those same years, an additional and consolidated remuneration increase of 0.5% will be applied, with effect from January 1, 2024. .
