The president of the Spanish Federation of Associations of the Higher Bodies of the State Civil Administration (Fedeca), Ana Ercoreca, criticized this Monday that the agreement to increase the salary of public employees by 11.4% between 2025 and 2028, signed by the Government, CSIF and UGT, constitutes a “fraud of law”, by extending beyond the legislative period, which ends in 2027, and has warned that, by not incorporating the evolution real CPI, “will come to nothing.”
The head of Fedeca explained that Administration personnel have lost more than 44% of purchasing power since 1982, because the salary reviews applied in these decades have not evolved in accordance with the pace of real inflation. He also recalled that in 2010 an extra payment was eliminated, which represented a purchasing loss that amounted to more than 14,000 euros.
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Ercoreca has then highlighted that the Bank of Spain’s forecasts place inflation at 2.5% for this year, a percentage that coincides with the increase set by the Executive and the union organizations. “Therefore, it does not represent an increase or a real improvement,” he added.
The president of Fedeca has pointed out that the calculation of remuneration must take into account external factors that directly influence the cost of living, such as the volatility of energy prices within the CPI and the evolution of the real estate market. He has emphasized the issue of rent, which especially affects young people who enter the Administration for the first time and move to cities with high prices such as Madrid and Barcelona.
“If the increase does not take into account the real CPI, that increase will not be real, it will not be objective and it will mean a loss of purchasing power,” he insisted, although he has positively assessed the existence of a multi-year path of increases.
To close its assessment, Ercoreca has warned that the agreement could incur a “legal fraud”, since it establishes increases until 2028 when the legislature ends in 2027 and it is Congress that must endorse the salary revaluations.
Time reduction
On another level, the president of Fedeca has celebrated the reduction in processing times for public employment offers, although she has been reserved regarding vertical promotion in the Administration, considering that it facilitates promotions “without having proven the knowledge” of the civil service.
“No one would go into an operating room if the surgeon or health personnel were not good. What we need, want and demand is a public function based on excellence, on the principle of equality, merit and capacity,” he stressed.
Ercoreca has also warned that the number of public employees in Spain is below the European Union average and has indicated that, in the coming years, there will be a significant volume of retirements, which will precipitate a broad renewal process in the Administration.