CC.OO. Catalonia yesterday urged the Government of Pere Aragonès to convince the central government that the salary increase for civil servants for next year may exceed in some cases the 2.5% plus 1% included in the State budget. It did so after the Government offered the unions at the civil service table a salary increase of 2.5% next year plus two additional variables of 0.5% each depending on the evolution of the CPI or GDP .
Manel Pulido, coordinator of the Public Area of CC.OO. de Catalunya, said that the Generalitat has room to increase the salary increase planned for all civil servants, since Catalan inflation is higher than that of Spain as a whole. To make it possible –explains Pulido– the wording of the State Budget law should be modified, so that administrations that so wish can raise salaries above what was agreed. Therefore, CC.OO. asks that the Government, through ERC, force a change in the law now that it is in the Senate.
In parallel, the Generalitat informed the unions that the offer of places for next year will be 6,133. Of these, a total of 2,740 will correspond to teaching staff, 1,541 to health personnel and 880 to Mossos d'Esquadra. The rest will be: 498 positions for the administrative and technical staff, 230 for firefighters, 144 for prison services and 100 for rural agents.
