The Ministry of Public Function has maintained its salary increase offer for civil servants at 11% for the period 2025-2028 in the meeting held with CCOO, UGT and CSIF on Monday, but has committed to approve a Royal Decree-Law this month to pay in December a salary increase of 2.5%, corresponding to 2025, with retroactive effect from January 1.
The 11% wage increase offered by the Government would be fixed, that is, it would not have variable components as in the previous agreement, which, according to CCOO, could bring the total wage increase to 11.45% between 2025 and 2028 with the sliding of the wage tables.
According to CCOO, the main stumbling block to the agreement is the percentage wage increase that the Executive offers for this year 2025 (with retroactive effect from January) and for 2026, which would be capped at 4% for both years, something that this union considers“insufficient“.
“CCOO will continue in the negotiation out of responsibility and because it is confident that there is room to achieve a meeting point, although no scenario is ruled out if the immobility on the part of the Government persists, such as resuming mobilizations and calling a strike throughout the public sector,” the union said in a statement.
The parties will meet again next Wednesday at 6 p.m. for further negotiations.
For its part, CSIF has stated that it will consult with the union’s bodies on the content of what has been negotiated with the Civil Service, although it considers that the Ministry’s proposal is“improvable in many aspects”.
“Our organization continues to negotiate for a possible agreement to improve the working conditions of all public employees, who have almost a year with their salary frozen. CSIF with its contributions is improving the text and we will negotiate until the last minute to achieve the best possible agreement,” stressed the union of Miguel Borra.
Farewell to the vacancy replacement rate
In this sense, according to CSIF, the Ministry of Óscar López has accepted “fundamental” issues for the union, such as the elimination of the vacancy replacement rate; improvements in internal promotion; raising the amounts for insularity and for reasons of service (food and lodging), “which had not been updated for two decades”, and improving health care in Muface.
“From CSIF, we value these aspects and will analyze the agreement as a whole. We believe that with political will we can reach an agreement to end a situation of neglect and precariousness of our public employees, which has been entrenched for too long, both in terms of wages and working conditions,” defends CSIF.
For its part, UGT Public Services already endorsed last Thursday the 11% salary proposal presented by the Ministry, after raising by one point the initial offer of a 10% increase until 2028 that it made to the unions and which they all rejected.
The secretary general of UGT Public Services, Isabel Araque, indicated after today’s meeting that, following the modifications introduced by the Public Function, the trade union organizations have made assessments and contributions.
Among them, the possibility of moving a half-point wage increase from 2027 to 2026, i.e. from a 5% wage increase to 4.5% in 2027 to increase by half a point that of 2026, to which the government has refused.
Araque has stressed that the Department headed by Óscar López maintains the “ceiling” wage increase of 11% for the four years and 4% for 2025 and 2026 and, despite the progress, there are “bangs” pending in the negotiation, for which they have been convened for next Wednesday.
Monday’s marathon meeting, which lasted more than five hours, was chaired by the Secretary of State for Civil Service, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, and is part of the negotiations initiated by the Ministry with CCOO, UGT and CSIF to address a multi-year framework with salary and labor improvements for the more than three million public employees.
“The increase takes inflation into account.”
This same Monday, the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function, Óscar López, has stated that the 11% salary increase for civil servants in the period 2025-2028 that has been offered to the unions has been made taking into account the evolution of inflation for this year and the following three years so that the collective does not lose purchasing power.
“The Government is coherent. The Government has always practiced social dialogue, it has always reached agreements with the unions,” said López in statements to Antena 3 reported by Europa Press.
“We are talking about civil servants not losing purchasing power, we are talking about inflation for these four years,” the minister stressed.
The last salary agreement between the Government and the unions was in force between 2022-2024, and provided for salary increases with a fixed and variable part. This pact made it possible to raise civil servants’ salaries in this period by around 10% (when it was signed, in the fall of 2022, inflation was then at 10%), which implied an expenditure of close to 13,000 million euros.
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