On Wednesday, the Prime Minister will preside over the signing of the multi-year agreement for the development of public administration workers for the period 2025-2028 with Fesap and the Trade Union Front.
According to Luís Montenegro’s agenda, the agreement will be signed on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the official residence of the Prime Minister and will be attended by the Minister of State and Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, the representative of the Front of Unions of the Public Administration (Fesap), José Joaquim Abraão, and the representative of the Trade Union Front, Maria Helena Rodrigues
The Trade Union Front, led by The State Technical Personnel Union (STE) revealed to Lusa on Tuesday that it will sign the new agreement Multi-year plan proposed by the Government, which ensures minimum increases for all public employees until 2028.
The union led by María Helena Rodrigues thus joins the Federation of Public Administration Unions (Fesap), which on Monday had already indicated to Lusa that it was available to sign the agreement proposed by the Government for the valorization of the workers of the Public Administration and that includes a time horizon until 2028, given that the current one only applies until 2026.
At the end of the complementary meeting on Monday, these two unions, linked to UGT, had already indicated that having an agreement that covers the entire legislature would provide more security for public employees.
The Common Front is excluded from the signing of this agreementwho justified the decision by the fact that he was not willing to sponsor “a policy of impoverishment of Public Administration workers and degradation of services.” This union, attached to the CGTP, had already been left out of the agreement signed with the previous Government.
According to the unions, the Government modified the increases proposed for 2025 and 2026, proposing, in an additional meeting, an increase of at least 56.58 euros (the previous proposal was 55.26 euros) for gross monthly salaries of up to 2,620.23 euros and a minimum of 2.15% (the previous proposal was 2.10%) for higher salaries.
For 2027 and 2028, the Government proposed increases of 60.52 euros or a minimum of 2.3% (previously the proposal provided for increases of 57.89 euros or a minimum of 2.2%).
Taking as a reference the value of the minimum increase for 2025, both Fesap and STE expect that the basic remuneration of the Public Administration (commonly known as the State minimum wage) will increase to 878 euros, above the 875 euros that the Government.
According to the unions, the Government’s proposal also provides for an “acceleration” of the schedule for the review of unrevised careers, as well as an increase of around 5% in compensation.
According to the general secretary of Fesap, in this way, these increase to 49.27 euros up to position 9, to 53.60 euros in positions 9 to 18 and to 65.89 euros from position 18.
Per diems abroad increase to (in the same order as the salary positions) 117.47, 138.12 and 156.36 euros.
Source: Observadora
