Civil servants will have their salaries broadly increased in line with inflation. The Government is prepared to raise the salaries of the more than three million civil servants both this year with retroactive effect from January - with an additional payment to be paid at the end of 2022 - and the following two years. The sum of these three increases, which would amount to 8%, remains below the rate of inflation, which is already climbing to 10.5%. The Ministry of Finance and the Civil Service submitted its formal proposal for a wage increase to the trade unions at a meeting held on 28 September which initiates negotiations that had been at a standstill and which it intends to culminate in a multi-year agreement until 2024.
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