The 349,000 civil servants, about half of the total universe, who are able to raise an additional salary step in 2024, with only six points in the evaluation, four short of the ten required, will benefit from a salary increase that, in the case of senior technicians, varies between 159 euros and 211 euros per month, according to DN / Dinheiro Vivo accounts based on the government’s draft diploma, which is being discussed today with the unions, and the pay tables for general careers .
Technical assistants and operational assistants who meet the requirements for an extraordinary salary increase next year are entitled to an extra salary of 50 euros per month. To be eligible for this measure, civil servants in general careers covered by the Integrated Management and Performance Appraisal System in Public Administration (SIADAP) must meet the following criteria: be 18 years or older and have completed the two periods of freeze progression, between August 30 December 2005 and December 31, 2007 and between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2017, as proposed by the Executive.
However, the secretary general of the federation of public administration unions (Fesap), José Abraão, warned of two discriminatory situations that he hopes to see clarified during today’s meeting with the secretary of state for public administration, Inês Ramires. “There are workers admitted in 2008 and 2009 who do not have 18 years of service, but who were also punished by the freeze from 2011 to 2017. Therefore, Fesap hopes that the government will review this case to include these workers in the career accelerator,” said he said at a press conference yesterday. In addition, José Abraão states that “state employees with individual employment contracts”, such as hospital employees in the public sector (EPE), “should also benefit from the measure”.
This accelerator will be applied from 2024. That is, those who have only five points next year and who meet the requirements for the additional promotion will only be able to benefit from the extraordinary progression in 2025 when they have achieved the six points. required in the evaluation. In practice, you have to wait another year, since one point usually corresponds to one year. But an employee with only one point, for example, would have to wait another five years, until 2029, to make progress. At that point, however, we don’t yet know which government will sit in it, as there will be parliamentary elections in 2026. If the ruling cast switches factions, from socialist to social democrat, for example, it is not certain that this advantage will be maintained.
The cost of the accelerator has not yet been quantified. Inês Ramires hopes to provide an estimate of costs and how many civil servants will grow annually and from January 2025 at today’s meeting with unions.
The additional career leap, which corresponds to a salary increase, runs parallel to the SIADAP review. That is, the six points will be used for such acceleration of progression, and the remaining points will be accounted for in the normal evaluation system.
The measure comes on top of the regular annual update of salaries, as foreseen in the multi-year agreement between the government and the UGT unions (Fesap and the Union of State Technical Personnel). The common front, of the CGTP, was omitted. This pact provides for an annual nominal wage increase of EUR 52.11 for gross monthly wages to EUR 2612.03 and 2% for higher amounts. The increase applied this year should be the same in 2023. Given the inflationary crisis and the resulting rise in interest rates, which has “exacerbated the terms of mortgage loans by 250 or 300 euros per month”, the leader of Fesap believes that “most likely the 52 euros will be insufficient in 2024” , and defends a higher salary update.
This year, under pressure from the worsening cost of living and union demands, the government has already implemented an additional 1% salary increase for the entire civil service, which was paid backdated to January in May. This valuation comes on top of the update of 52 euros or 2% granted in January. Similarly, the executive branch decided to increase the food subsidy again, from 5.20 euros per day worked to 6 euros, the payment of which was made in May with effect from 1 January. This is the second increase in one year, after the allowance was increased from EUR 4.77 to EUR 5 per day in January.
Source: DN
