State employees will receive a salary increase and a bonus of S/600

For the second consecutive year, the Executive Branch and the public sector unions signed the Centralized Collective Agreement 2023in which economic improvements were achieved for around 565,000 state workers.

The fiscal cost of this collective agreement would be around S/919 million 200,000, which has the endorsement of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). According to the minutes signed on June 30, the Government promised to grant an exceptional bonus of S/600 for public servants under the CAS regimes, civil service law, special public penitentiary career and diplomatic service of the republic. As well as the workers of legislative decrees 276 and 728, according to the act signed between workers and the State.

To be a beneficiary of this bonus, workers from the three levels of government must have a labor relationship as of June 30, 2023 and be registered in the Computer Application for the Centralized Registry of Payrolls and Data of Public Sector Human Resources ( AIRSHP) or in the Electronic payroll (PDT PLAME).

Fernando Cuadros, former Vice Minister of Employment, specified that this benefit also applies to public workers who are not unionized. In addition, only workers who hold managerial or trust positions or meet the characteristics of a public official are excluded from these agreements. Nor does it reach special career personnel in the Health and Education Sectors.

According to calculations by Cuadros Luque, the S/600 bond would imply an approximate transitory cost of S/339 million. According to the state workers, the extraordinary bonus would be granted in this month of July. Prior to this, the Government must approve a norm with the force of law for the resources to be authorized.

Salary increase

Another agreement reached by state workers with the Government It is about the increase in the remuneration of the 565,000 public workers.

In this way, a permanent monthly salary increase of S/100 was agreed, which will be carried out in two tranches: in January and December 2024. For example, if a Public worker He has been earning S/1,100, from January 1 of next year he will earn a salary of S/1,150 and from December 1 he will begin to earn S/1,200.

This increase will be subject to social charges, is of a pensionable nature, has a remunerative nature and is part of the calculation basis for employment benefits. Likewise, it is specified that the total monthly income of each beneficiary server It must not exceed the amount of S/15,600.

Decentralized agreement in progress

Once the centralized collective bargaining has been completed, this process is now ongoing, but at a decentralized level, that is, by public entity. The former Vice Minister of Employment Fernando Cuadros He explains that in these dialogue tables what he does is complement the agreements already agreed at the centralized level.

“At a decentralized level there could no longer be a salary increase or a bonus with the same characteristics, but there could be other economic improvements such as a bonus for productivity,” he adds.

Collective agreement 2023

Agreement establishes the delivery of an exceptional and one-time bonus of S/600which will be delivered in July.