The complaint of the Civil Guard about the “lack of clarity” in the negotiation of the insularity bonus in the Balearic Islands has a specific point of friction: the difference between the proposal defended by UGT and the scheme that was finally transferred as an agreement.
During the negotiation in the Civil Service, UGT opted for a flat complement model, identical for all public personnel of the State in the Balearic Islands, regardless of the professional category. In this approach, the insularity bonus was set at 206 euros per month in Mallorca and 410 euros in Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera, following the system already applied by the Balearic Government to its regional staff.
However, the result that UGT subsequently communicated did not correspond to this scheme. In the information disseminated after the advance of the agreement, the allowance appeared linked to the professional category, with different amounts depending on the labor group and the island of destination, replicating the usual model of the Canary Islands.
Within this framework, the amounts would range from 101 euros in Mallorca and 252 euros in the rest of the islands for group AP, to 206 euros in Mallorca and 669 euros in Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera for group A1, with intermediate steps for C2, C1 and A2.
The origin of the unrest in the Civil Guard
It is precisely this shift from an equal bonus to a category bonus that, according to Jucil, has not been explained with sufficient transparency. The association maintains that different tables and figures were circulated during the negotiation, and that in subsequent communications elements that had been part of the initial proposals disappeared.
The professional organization stresses that, beyond the model chosen, the underlying problem persists: the insularity supplement still does not reflect the real cost of living in the Balearic Islands, especially in destinations such as Ibiza and Formentera, which favors the departure of trained agents and a high turnover of staff.
Jucil points out that issues such as access to housing have become the main factor for expulsion. Jucil warns of a constant rotation of personnel, with entries and exits practically balanced in recent years, which has transformed the destination into “an extension of the academy”: agents arrive, complete their training and leave for other territories without consolidating the workforce.
This dynamic, they stress, undermines the stability and quality of the service and can only be reversed with a residence supplement realistically linked to the cost of the archipelago, and not with formulas that, in their opinion, continue to fall short.
Awaiting final text
Although the unions have reported on the general terms of the agreement, no final technical document has been made public detailing precisely the application of the supplement, its timetable and its specific impact on corps such as the Civil Guard.
This absence of a definitive text is what, according to Jucil, fuels the uncertainty and reinforces his demand that the insularity bonus is negotiated with clear figures and adjusted to the economic reality of the archipelago.
