The Minister of Finance, Germán Ávila said that the increase in wages to public employees by 2025 was inflation of 2024 (5.2%) plus 1.8%; The payment will have retroactivity since January 1, 2025.
Faced with the salary increase to public employees in 2025 and 2026, Ávila said that the 1.8% increase in 2025 will cost $ 2.1 billion to the State. By 2026, the 1.9% increase will represent an additional expenditure of $ 2.3 billion. Then he clarified that both figures are already included in the government’s financial plan, and in total both increases total $ 4.4 billion.
For 2026, an increase in the consumer price index was agreed, IPC, From the end 2025 plus 1.9%, and this will govern since January 1 of that year.
Fabio Arias, president of the CUT union organization, said that on May 1, there will be a great mobilization in defense of labor rights, “Recording facts such as the social mobilization of 2021”.
While the Minister of Labor, Antonio Sanguino, He confirmed that the Executive will file the popular consultation project with the 12 questions.
