The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted that some 10,000 employees and public employees of Melilla will benefit from the additional increase of 0.5% of their salaries thanks to the agreement approved by the Government of Spain, in the last Council of Ministers.
As he explained, this improvement will be retroactive from January 1, 2024, so nearly 10,000 melillenses and more than three million public employees throughout the country will receive an additional income with the total amount owed in the August payroll, which will also be updated with their new salary increased.
This salary improvement is part of the agreement that the Government of Spain reached with CCOO and UGT in terms of salary improvement for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, which included a total increase of 9.8%, in addition to a series of review clauses linked to the behavior of the IPC, among which is this 0.5%.
In the first year, the increase was 3.5%. In 2023, a fixed increase of 2.5% and an additional increase, linked to HICP and GDP data, of 1%, were applied. Finally, by 2024, the remuneration grew by 2%, to which a variable part of 0.5% was added depending on the parameters marked by the IPCA.
Specifically, this 0.5% increase that is now approved fulfils the condition that the sum of the variation of the HICP of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 exceeded the fixed remuneration increase accumulated in that same triennium.
Improvement of the Welfare State
“During these 7 years, the Government of Spain has made a firm commitment to the improvement of the Welfare State and, precisely for that reason, the public administrations have been modernized, the staff of public employees have been strengthened, and the salaries have been improved, year after year, of the professionals who carry out the work of the public service,” he said.
The record Public Employment Offers of recent years, the programs to attract young talent and the reinforcement of attention to the citizen, are other examples of that commitment to public services that the Government of Pedro Sánchez has championed since its inception, he has apostilled.
The head of the Government Delegation recalled that the PP Government frozen the salary of public employees for several years, while eliminating the extra pay for Christmas 2012.
Not only that, the PP Executive weakened public services and the Welfare State by reducing the staffing levels of teachers, police and civil guards, and employees of all categories of the General Administration of the State.
The current government, in fact, is about to quadruple the public employment places offered by Mariano Rajoy during his time at the head of the national executive. Since arriving in La Moncloa in 2018, this Government has called for a total of 223,589 places – not counting the Public Employment Offer (EPO) of 2025 – compared to the 63,394 that materialized the PP between 2012 and 2017.