Civil servants with 18 years of service, who fall under the nine-year promotion freeze and who have six points in the performance rating, will receive career progression from 2024, the government explained on Wednesday.
The measure was proposed today by the Secretary of State for Public Administration, Inês Ramires, during meetings with the Union of State Technical Personnel (STE), the Trade Union Federation of Public Administration (FESAP) and the Common Front of Trade Unions, in the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Lisbon.
“In terms of accelerating career development, our focus was on presenting an intended measure employees who have 18 years of career and have had the two freezes, which total nine years, receive a reduction in the number of points required to change their wage position”said the State Secretary to journalists.
He says ten points are usually needed in the performance evaluation for employees to move forward, but the measure allows these employees to reduce this to six points.
This measure will affect 349,000 workers affected by the two progress freezes (one that took place from 2005 to 2007 and another from 2011 to 2027) and will apply “from 2024 and once for every worker in this universe,” the secretary of state added.
Negotiations on this specific measure to speed up progression will take place from May, as the government and unions will continue to discuss the 1% interim salary update in April to mitigate the impact of inflation, as well as regulation of the decent work agenda.
Regarding the possibility of rolling back the interim 1% increase for the civil service to January, as demanded by the unions, and which is only scheduled for April, the official said the executive will take it into consideration at the next meeting , on April 5. , the proposals of trade union structures.
Inês Ramires also indicated that the additional salary increase of 1% and the increase in the food subsidy, from 5.20 euros to 6 euros, represent a cost of 300 million euros from April.
With the package of measures for the civil service, the increase in the wage bill will go from 5.1% to 6.3%, i.e. from 1,300 million euros to 1,624 million euros, he added.
“More than 40% of public administration employees have an increase equal to or greater than inflation,” the secretary of state emphasized, who also indicated that the measures result in an income increase of between 10.3% for the lowest wages and 3, 1% for the top.
Source: DN
