Carlos Guimarães Pinto, deputy member of the Liberal Initiative (IL), said on Friday that civil servants will suffer a wage devaluation of 7.2% by the end of 2023 compared to 2021, which corresponds to the loss of a Christmas subsidy.
The deputy’s calculations were presented in parliament during a hearing with the minister of the presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, in the context of the valuation in the specialty of the state budget for 2023 (OE2023).
Carlos Guimarães Pinto said the OE2023 proposal foresees an average increase in civil servant salaries of 3.6% in 2023, which, added to the 0.9% increases in 2022, will yield an average update of 4.5% in 2023. the two years. .
Taking into account the forecast of 7.4% inflation in 2022 and 4% in 2023, predictions the deputy deemed “optimistic” means that “By the end of 2023, civil servants will have an average devaluation of their salary of 7.2%”, stated.
‘It is exactly the reduction percentage if the government had reduced the Christmas subsidy to civil servants’he added, adding that “it is the cut that employees will have at the end of 2023 compared to December 2021″which he called “a very big mathematical coincidence”.
In her response, the presidency minister recalled that the public administration valuation for 2023 includes not only the annual salary update, but also career development and other valuations, which corresponds to a 5.1% increase in the payroll.
“Wages don’t just evolve with the annual update, they evolve through other dimensions that have been frozen for many years [progressões]”said Mariana Vieira da Silva.
“To look at the impact of inflation on wages, we need to look at 5.1%”the minister added, noting that the government has also taken other measures to tackle inflation, such as the EUR 125 aid.
Source: DN
