Five are the months of delay accumulated by officials in the collection of that 0.5% salary increase corresponding to 2024 and that the Pedro Sánchez executive promised to pay them with retroactive character in January of this year. Or what is the same, agents accumulate 17 months of pending payment. A payment that came to “compensate” the purchasing loss caused by inflation and that will not be effective until it is approved in the Council of Ministers, through a royal decree, and is published in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
Remember that this upload is collected in the framework agreement for a 21st century administration for the 2022-2024 period and that it is linked to the evolution of the harmonized IPC. However, although it should have been applied retroactively, it is still not materialized by the “inaction” of the Executive. Because the formula is very simple and the government could apply a climb without further decree, as it did just a few weeks with military personnel.
In the case of national police and civil guards, that salary increase would involve between 10 and 120 euros per yeardepending on the range, antiquity and accessories they charge at that time. We should also have other concepts such as extraordinary diets and payments. However, this increase is subject to the approval of the General State Budgets (PGE), and as the executive president already announced, the panorama is not very optimistic: if there are no budgets, they will be extended again. Therefore, the 0.5% increase could eternalize no matter how much the Minister of Public Function, Óscar López, strives to meet with the unions.
The attitude of the government is “unacceptable”
The different unions and associations of the Police and the Civil Guard consider “unacceptable” that the Executive subject the remuneration improvements to the approval of the PGE, since it leaves the agents in a situation of “uncertainty and vulnerability”. An opinion shared by the Association of Prison officials your abandonment can kill me (Tampm), which has gone one step further to claim compliance with that framework agreement and has presented a Resource before the Ministry of PresidencyJustice and relations with the Cortes, directed by Félix Bolaños.
“They will make us obstacles and try to veto us in the negotiations, but They cannot prevent us from claiming What corresponds to workers, “they say from this group of officials. For this reason, they file an appeal before the Government to comply with the provision of a general nature With the rank of law, which forces you to rise that 0.5% stipulated to officials. “It does not need another act of application than the agreement of the Council of Ministers and its publication in the BOE to execute the benefit,” they say.
And they send a last message to the Executive of Sánchez: “That mandate to the government cannot decline because the General State Budget Law is not approved by 2025, since it would regulate public remuneration by 2025, but not accrued in the previous year“
Marlaska already played 70,000 police officers
However, this way of acting of the Executive is not new. In February 2024, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska played thousands of national police. More than 70,000 agents had to Wait for April to collect another 0.5% increase in their payrollsdespite the fact that the rest of the officials of this ministry had already charged it, including civil guards. The reason? An “dispatch error”.
Although the Official State Gazette published on February 8 of last year the resolution of the Secretary of State for Budgets and Expenses in which the instructions for the payment to the officials of the 0.5% remuneration increase linked to the evolution of GDP, This payment was not made on the date.
Specifically, the resolution not only established the additional amounts corresponding to retroactive effects since January 1, 2023, but also made it clear that, “Except for technical reasons,” that payment should be made in February. Needless to, neither February nor March … The justification wielded from the inside was that “on that date the files of the payrolls to the Treasury were already referred to their inspection and that we had to wait.” However, the rest of interior officials had charged it.