The government presented a new salary proposal to the unions this Friday, maintaining the increases at 52.11 euros, but with a minimum of 3%, compared to the previous 2%, said the Common Front, which found the value “miserable” .
“The proposal with which the government reaches the table today remains absolutely miserable, from the point of view of the Common Front,” began the leader of the trade union structure, Sebastião Santana, after leaving a meeting with the minister of the European Union. Presidency, Mariana Viera da Silva, and with the Secretary of State for Public Administration, Inês Ramires.
According to the trade unionist, the government “maintains the proposal for the basics, so the change in the salary level amounts to 52.11 euros and from then on it has been increased from 2% to 3%”.
“What separates us is a 12% proposal and the big difference is that ours allows us to reverse the path of impoverishment while the government’s does not. Given all this, it is normal for employees to think about the developments they will experience from now on. front in the negotiations,” Sebastião Santana warned.
The proposal for a salary increase of the Common Front is 15%, with a guarantee of at least 150 euros per employee.
Sebastião Santana said that the Common Front has requested additional negotiations from the government and hopes that the executive’s proposal will be further improved, especially regarding the remuneration base for public administration, which currently stands at 769.20 euros.
“This matter is not yet closed for us, there are conditions for the government to go much further,” the union leader emphasized.
Sebastião Santana said that he believes that the government has today maintained the proposal to update the base at 52.11 euros, as it awaits the negotiations on the national minimum wage for 2024, which are taking place in the Social Consultation.
The national minimum wage is 760 euros and the income agreement signed a year ago during the Social Consultation provided for an increase to 810 euros in 2024, but the Prime Minister, António Costa, has already admitted that the value could be higher .
The government and three public administration union structures will today renegotiate next year’s salary update and other measures to be included in the 2024 state budget proposal (OE2024).
During the two previous meetings, the Secretary of State for Public Administration, Inês Ramires, maintained the proposal for a salary update provided for in the agreement signed a year ago between the government and the UGT structures, proposing increases equivalent to an increase in the salary level (approximately 52 euros).
In percentage terms, this increase in the salary base of approximately 52 euros translates into an update of 6.8%.
In addition to annual salary increases, the government proposal provides for measures that will be included in OE2024, which will be presented to the General Assembly of the Republic next Tuesday, such as ending the cuts in daily allowances and transport subsidies that have been in force since the financial crisis. crisis (December 2010), a measure that will cost 21 million euros next year.
The government also proposes to restore the amount payable for overtime from 100 hours per year, as set out in the Decent Work Agenda, a measure estimated to cost 25 million euros in 2024.
Source: DN
