Government approves greatest rise ever of the minimum wage

The Council of Ministers approved the decree-law that sets the rise in the minimum wage to 820 euros as of January 2024.

 The aim is to materialise the commitments undertaken under the Increasing the Medium-Term Agreement to Improve Income, Wages, and Competitiveness signed by the Government and the social partners.

 This rise represents €60 more per month and is the greatest minimum wage increase ever seen, of 7.9%.

Civil service wages updated

 The decree-law that sets the measures to enhance workers in civil service was also approved, whereby the wage base was amended, and the wages paid for Public Administration in 2024 were updated to comply with the wage bargaining.

 This amendment to the wage bases to €821.83 and updating the wages for public administration workers in 2024 will again go beyond the commitment undertaken in the Multiannual Agreement to enhance Public Administration Workers in 2022.

The Council of Ministers also approved the decree-law that approves the measures to enhance workers in a set of special careers, the bargaining for which was carried out by the Government and respective trade unions.

 Given the context to enhance careers, boosting skills and creating the conditions for greater attractiveness to fix talent, installing the mechanisms to correct the wage differences for careers with different levels of complexity and improving wages for the general senior staff career in order to make public employment more attractive, the Government acknowledges as necessary that the wage increases in the general senior staff career follow the same path as the special careers still in 2023.