The Jupol and Jucil unions have placed the early retirement at the center of the open negotiations with the Ministry of the Interior of Fernando Grande Marlaska. The two organizations have claimed that the future regulation guarantees a dignified retirement for all national police and civil guards, without exceptions or differences derived from the contribution regime.
The Secretary of State for Security has reopened the dialogue after years of administrative blockade. The meeting was held this Tuesday and takes place after a judicial turning point, a ruling by the Supreme Court that would have unblocked a situation that had been entrenched for more than 8 years. However, union representatives warn that this progress may be distorted if the regulatory design introduces new gaps between groups.
The axis of the claim revolves around a concept that transcends the retirement age: the effective equalization of retirement conditions. “We are going to fight so that all colleagues, without exception, have the same conditions of access to retirement and the same pension,” maintain both organizations, which explicitly reject any formula that leaves out agents assigned to the Passive Classes regime or the Civil Guard.
They ask for the recognition of risk professions
The lawsuit is part of a broader debate about the recognition of certain professions as risky activities. Jupol and Jucil insist that the nature of police work, continuous exposure to dangerous situations, physical and psychological wear and tear, justifies the application of reducing coefficients that allow advancing the retirement age under conditions comparable to those of regional and local police forces. This point is key since in Spain, early retirement linked to painful or dangerous professions has historically been unequal between bodies.
The unions remember the 2018 agreement on salary equalization, which they consider incomplete, and warn that thousands of agents were left out then, especially those with more seniority. “We are not going to accept patches or incomplete agreements,” they warn, in a direct reference to the need for the current reform to correct these structural distortions.
Demonstration for better salary conditions
The organizations announce the continuity of the mobilizations that began in April, when thousands of agents demonstrated to demand job improvements and a retirement in accordance with the conditions of service. The strategy seeks to transfer the conflict to the political and social field, in a context in which the Government will have to balance the budgetary impact of any reform with the growing demand for equality within the security forces.
The debate on early retirement reveals a fundamental issue: the homogeneity of the remuneration and social protection system between police forces. The unions maintain that differences persist in aspects such as overtime pay, overtime or compensation for services, which, in their opinion, shows that the equalization remains partial.
Early retirement has become a symbol of professional recognition. Its resolution, they warn, will mark not only the retirement conditions of thousands of agents, but also the degree of internal cohesion of the State security forces in the coming years.