The Ministry of Civil Service and the trade unions UGT and CSIF (CCOO is still to be assessed) have reached a multi-year agreement to raise civil servants‘ salaries by 11% in the period 2025-2028.
This increase will benefit the 72,000 public workers in the Balearic Islands and will be distributed in a rise of 2.5% for this year; 1.5% for 2026, with an additional variable of 0.5% linked to the evolution of the CPI; 4.5% for 2027 and 2% for 2028, according to union sources.
This year’s increase of 2.5% will be paid in December with retroactive effect from January 1. For 2026, what has been agreed is a fixed wage increase of 1.5%, to which a further half a point would be added if inflation at the end of the year equals or exceeds the fixed 1.5% increase.
If so, this additional 0.5% would be paid in the first quarter of 2027 with retroactive effect. The 2026 increase is the only increase that will have a fixed and variable part, all the others will be exclusively fixed.
Although for the 2025-2028 period as a whole the agreed increase is 11%, the unions estimate that, due to the dragging effect of the different salary increases in each year, the cumulative salary increase that public employees will experience in those four years could reach 11.5%.
While UGT and CSIF have given their approval to the agreement, the CCOO has assured that, at this time, they do not support it. It is expected that the agreement -whether or not CCOO is in it- will be signed this Thursday.
“The Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service has reached an agreement in principle with two of the main trade union centers, UGT and CSIF, and is waiting for CCOO to also be part of it. This agreement represents a breakthrough for public servants and also guarantees the purchasing power of public employees until 2028,” stressed the Department headed by Óscar López in a note.
This pre-agreement has been reached after a new meeting, the second this week, of the Secretary of State for Public Function, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, with representatives of CCOO, UGT and CSIF, to address a new multi-year pact for salary improvements and working conditions for public employees.
Other improvements
The agreement also incorporates several improvements in the working conditions of civil servants, such as the elimination of the replacement rate, the streamlining of selection processes and the reinforcement of public service staff, among other aspects.
CSIF defends that the wage agreement reached is“the best possible in the current political circumstances” and means, on the one hand, ending the wage freeze that civil servants were suffering this year and the recovery of 2.9% of the purchasing power that the group had lost.
“CSIF subscribes to this agreement as a matter of responsibility and commitment to public employees. We have achieved the best possible agreement taking into account the difficulties the country is going through, the political instability, the budget blockade and the economic limitations of the European Union and NATO for defense spending,” says the union presided by Miguel Borra.
The parties have agreed to set up a monitoring committee to ensure compliance with the agreed measures within a maximum period of 15 days from the signing of the agreement. Thus, CSIF has stressed that the agreement “is not a blank check” and that it will ensure compliance “in time and form”, reserving “all measures to ensure its effective implementation”.
“It’s a great deal.”
The general secretary of UGT Public Services, Isabel Araque, said after Wednesday’s meeting, that it is “a great agreement”, with which “not only public employees win”, but also that ” the quality of the public sector wins, the citizens win and the country in general wins”.
Araque stressed that the salary increase agreed with the Ministry, 11.5% if salary slippages are taken into account, guarantees purchasing power and around 2.9% recovery of the purchasing power lost by civil servants.
Thus, in addition to salary improvements, UGT and CSIF have explained that the agreement with the Government includes the elimination of the current rate of replacement of vacancies to favor the reinforcement of the staff in the areas most in need and reduce the hiring of temporary personnel; the reduction of the deadlines for the selective processes in the public employment offers so that their final resolution does not exceed one year, and the extension and improvement of both internal promotion and mobility.
Likewise, it has been agreed to adapt the job classification, adapting it to the actual functions, taking into account the experience and the qualifying training requirements, and to promote exclusive and differentiated processes of internal promotion of selective courses, strengthening merit-based competitions through the establishment of the open and permanent competition.
The text of the agreement also includes the revision and increase, throughout 2026, of the residence and insularity complements and of the compensations for reasons of service, eliminating inequalities among public employees; the reinforcement of the public attention staff; the updating of leaves and improvements in conciliation matters; the reinforcement of occupational health protection, with psychological support measures and measures against aggressions; salary updates for external labor personnel; improvements in the area of retirement, and the reinforcement of the health quality of the Mutualismo Administrativo (Muface, Mugeju and Isfas).
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