The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility of the Government of Spain, Óscar Puente, has announced in the plenary session of the Senate that the Ministry of Finance is going to approve salary supplements for the staff of Logirail, a technological subsidiary of Renfe dedicated to the management of digital services. 216 workers will benefit from this increase and it will be formalized this Tuesday through the Treasury Personnel Costs Directorate.
The announcement ends weeks of uncertainty that have affected employees who received the ‘ad personam’ supplement with which talent from the private sector or qualified foreigners was retained. In some cases, this bonus is 30% of the salary, an amount that was at risk after an internal communication received by the workers in which they were notified that they would stop collecting it as of January 2026.
The senator of the PP (Popular Party), Emma Buj, conveyed to the minister the concern of those affected, since several were working for the Renfe Digital Skills Center in Teruel where they manage more than 600 applications, 2,000 servers and seven million emails a month.
Puente has responded that the administrative delays in the management of these complements have no relationship with the extension of the General State Budgets (PGE).
The Government intends, with this decision, to maintain the employment stability of one of the strategic subsidiaries of Renfe, which is responsible for the digital development of this railway operator.
The exact terms of the Treasury resolution are not known, nor will its measure include any future review or limitation of these bonuses.
What is an ‘ad personam’ complement?
An ad personam supplement is a payroll payment that is granted individually and personally to the worker, not based on objective criteria such as seniority or dangerousness. It is used to adjust the bar salary to the salary tables of a collective agreement, if the worker’s original salary was higher, or to retain talent.
As its main characteristic, it is linked to the person and is not applicable to other employees of the same position, although it is often regulated by the collective agreement and is considered a consolidated right.