Secretary of State for public administration meets with syndicates
Portugal’s government has upgraded its proposal for the monthly base salary of public sector workers to €875 in 2025, in order to comply with an agreement to increase the pay of State sector employees.
According to Sebastião Santana, coordinator of the Common Front trade union platform, the government is maintaining its €52 with a minimum 2% for the general update of civil service salaries, and has put forward a proposal to increase the salary base by €4.50 compared to the proposal it presented previously, to €875.
Currently, the statutory minimum wage is €820 and the base salary for public sector workers (also known as the state minimum wage) is €821.83.
Last week, the government proposed that this base salary would rise to €870.50 next year. Unions warned this did not comply with the agreement to increase State workers’ salaries signed with the previous Socialist government, which provided for increases of around €52 for gross monthly salaries of up to €1,754 and 2% for higher ones.
With today’s proposal, the increase from €821.83 gross to €875 gross next year represents a rise of €53.17 or 6.47% – slightly above the 6.1% increase set for the statutory minimum wage, writes Lusa.
All this is taking place, however, against the uncertain backdrop of whether the current government will remain ‘in place’ following voting at the end of the month on the 2025 State Budget. President Marcelo has said he will dissolve parliament and call new elections – the third in three years – if MPs do not approve the AD coalition’s first budget.
Source material: LUSA
