The PAN spokeswoman criticized on Tuesday the proposal for salary increases for civil servants, pointing to a “route of salary devaluation” and warning that civil servants “will live with fewer resources” next year.
The Government’s proposal worries us because it breaks the rule that has been in force until now, of updating the public service salary according to inflation”, says Inês Sousa Real in a note sent to the Lusa agency.
The sole deputy of the PAN considers that “this situation is serious” and “worrying because it insists on a path of salary devaluation that makes the civil service unattractive -and in particular the positions of senior technicians-, opening the door to the flight of his best staff and not give incentives so that the younger generations want to follow a path of service to the public cause”.
And he points out that, “as is going to happen with pensioners, next year officials will lose income, they will live with fewer resources.”
The PAN leader affirms that “this situation is unfortunate because between 2009 and 2021 public servants suffered a loss of purchasing power of the order of 10.3%, of which they never recovered at the time of the ‘geingonça’, so this The government’s announcement only exacerbates this situation.”
Inês Sousa Real also highlights that “salary increases in the civil service are always a benchmark for salary increases in the private sector” and criticizes that, “with this conservatism, the Government is condemning private sector workers to a logic of loss of purchasing power in the coming year that will put people in a situation of serious social fragility.”
The Government proposed this Monday to the public administration unions wage increases of between 8% and 2%, with a guarantee of a minimum of around 52 euros.
This new update mechanism is multi-year, valid until 2026, although some revisions may occur each year, depending on the economic and financial reality of the country, the Minister of the Presidency told Lusa.
In 2022, most of the 740 thousand public servants had salary increases of 0.9%, in line with the inflation observed in 2021, without deflation.
The Minister of the Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, said on Monday that there is room to improve the salary increase proposal for the civil service, admitting “small blows”, but highlighted the budgetary effort that the current document already contemplates.
The Government’s proposal for the State Budget for 2023 will be delivered next Monday (10) to the Assembly of the Republic.
Source: Observadora
