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Spain Opens Talks on 2028 Public‑Sector Pay Pact Tied to Inflation

Union demands for retroactive 2025 raises meet a plan tied to passage of the 2026 state budget.

Overview

  • Government negotiators proposed a three‑year revaluation through 2028 designed to preserve purchasing power using fixed and variable components.
  • Formal talks began Wednesday with national public‑sector federations to set parameters that regional and local administrations would follow.
  • Unions insist on an immediate 2025 increase with retroactive effect to January, keeping the threat of a December general strike in play.
  • Officials have not decided between annual inflation‑indexing of pay or a single end‑of‑period compensatory payment.
  • The Executive aims to embed the pact in the 2026 General State Budgets, which lack assured parliamentary support, after a year of frozen public wages and incomplete prior reforms such as the 35‑hour week.