The Government recalls that the decision to raise public salaries is in the hands of Madrid
ELA and LAB have concentrated this morning at the gates of the headquarters of the Basque Government to, among other things, call for the working conditions of public employees to be decided here.
"It is the State that marks the limit and it is legally impossible to establish it above it (the rise)." The Basque Government spokeswoman, María Ubarretxena, said this when asked about the increase in the salaries of public employees. "It is an annual question and we answer the same every year: the Government's criterion is to apply the ceiling of the scale set by Madrid," she explained.
Ubarretxena spoke at his hearing following the Governing Council on the criticism of ELA and LAB following the meeting of the General Bureau of the Civil Service held today. Both trade unions have once again denounced the Government's unwillingness to decide here on the working conditions of its 150,000 public employees.
The Councillor for Governance, Digital Administration and Self-Government has also stressed that the increase that the Spanish Government is going to implement this year is not yet known. He has also said that this debate on working conditions must take place at the negotiating tables under way.
ELA and LAB have concentrated this morning at the gates of the headquarters of the Basque Government in Vitoria-Gasteiz on the occasion of the meeting of the General Bureau of the Civil Service, two unions that have been very critical of the fact that, in their words, the Executive of Vitoria-Gasteiz has shown no signs of deciding the conditions of public employees in the ACV.
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