The government approved this Thursday a minimum increase of 52.11 euros for public administration officials with salaries of up to 2,700 euros, in 2023, the minister of the presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, announced.
“All civil servants with salaries up to 2,700 euros will receive a minimum increase of 52.11 euros and from then on the salary update value of 2% will apply”the minister explained to journalists at the end of a meeting of the Council of Ministers.
The Cabinet of the Minister of State and the Presidency specified that the minimum increase of 52.11 euros covers all civil servants with salaries up to 2,612.04 euros.
Mariana Vieira da Silva announced this in the Council of Ministers “has today approved the two decree-laws in the context of the multi-annual agreement for the valuation of public employees, which guarantees predictability during this legislature and sets the remuneration base of the public administration at 761.58 euros and updates the value of public sector remuneration, which corresponds to an annual salary increase equal to a salary level in each career, or 2% for all employees”.
As the minister explained, the decree laws also update the value of the meal allowance to 5.20 euros and also approve a series of measures for the appreciation of employees in public positions, focusing on “the change to the pay levels for senior technician general careers, technical assistant careers, and operations assistant careers, to accelerate advancement in these careers and restore compensation levels for general public administration careers”.
In addition, they approve the valuation of some special careers of degree of complexity 2, which were reviewed, which “had the same effect as that seen in general careers of compression of the basic salary level, due to the evolution of the last years of the national minimum wage, trying not to have such a compressed career”.
In the context of the Integrated Management and Job Evaluation System for Public Administration (SIADAP), the introduction of the rule for collecting excess points “for the purpose of changing the remuneration position based on the job evaluation, starting in the 2021 evaluation cycle, is also being considered /2022,” the official explains.
“This set of measures was part of a collective bargaining process that we have been developing for several months with the representative trade unions of civil servants, which resulted in a multi-year civil servant valuation agreement signed with FESAP and STE”the minister recalled.
The Common Front of Public Administration Unions, which belongs to the CGTP, has not signed the above agreement.
Measures to improve public administration, including salary increases, promotions and advancement opportunities and the revision of the pay table, will have a budgetary impact of €1,200 million in 2023, the presidency minister told Lusa in October.
Asked about the fact that the 2023 proposal remains below the government’s estimated inflation rate of 7.4%, the minister stressed that the salary increase is “in line with what the government is proposing in terms of social dialogue” in the context of the the agreement on income and competitiveness, which emphasizes the need to take into account “an important element, namely that of progressiveness”.
The government has proposed to civil servants unions a multi-year agreement that includes salary increases of between 8% and 2%, with a minimum of about €52 per employee (equivalent to a difference in salary level) per year, until 2026, and the valuation of general careers of senior technician, technical assistant and operational assistant.
This year, most of the 740,000 civil servants received a 0.9% salary increase, in line with November 2021 inflation, 0.1% away from deflation.
According to the cabinet, the package of measures in 2022 for the civil service, including promotion and promotion programs, the increase in the minimum wage and new entry, had an impact of 680 million euros, which corresponds to a 2.7% increase in the wage bill.
Source: DN
