344,000 public servants have already been upgraded

The thaw of careers in the public service, begun in January, has already resulted in a salary increase for 344,000 state workers. That's the number of Central Administration employees with pay assessments recognized so far, according to a statement from the Department of Finance sent to the press rooms this Friday

in the framework of meetings with the unions of the public administration, the department made a point. on the thaw of careers in the central administration (direct and indirect).

"Provisional data (with 70% of respondents) collected by the General Inspectorate of Finance as part of the mechanism for monitoring compensation assessments show that the process"

And reveals that "the number of workers with a recognized remuneration has already reached the order of 344,000 ". This figure "confirms the government's forecasts that have supported the definition of the career release process in the 2018 budget law,"

In an interview with Expresso in late March, Finance Minister Mário Centeno said assured that by the end of the year, more than 400,000 public servants will benefit from a salary increase between promotions and promotions. In terms of total employment in the public administration, these 344,000 workers account for just over half of the total (51%).

After years of public services have been thawed since January, the state budget for 2018 (OE-2018) stipulating that the salary increase resulting from the progressions will be paid in four installments of 25 % each: the first in January of this year year, the second in September of this year, the third in May 2019 and the fourth in December 2019.

However, in the first months of the year, the number of employees who saw the appreciation of the recognized compensation, ie that they received a salary increase was reduced, which was strongly criticized by the unions.

A situation that the Ministry of Finance justified by procedural difficulties in the services of the public administration, guarantee that all the workers who would have been entitled to a progression in January, but who only saw later the appreciation of compensation, would receive retroactivity.

Concerned mainly by officials whose progress depends on performance evaluation and who already

Civil servants whose progression depends on time, such as teachers, will progress throughout the year by completing the necessary time modules

Despite this thawing, the teachers and the Ministry of Education maintain a tug on the quarries. Unions are demanding that all freezing time (nine years, four months and two days) be recouped for career advancement, while the government admits to only accounting for one part of it ( two years, nine months and 18 days). 19659002] According to the 2018-2022 Stability Program, the thaw of the career development of civil servants will cost the state coffers nearly 600 million euros in net terms by 2020. Of this total , 200 million euros represent the estimated net cost this year.