Call for pay rise for civil servants

The public services trade unions from the three main confederations (CSC/ACV, ACOD/CGSP, VSOA/SLFP) have negotiated an agreement that will provide for pay increases and a range of other benefits for the 65,000 workers in the federal government. The agreement still has to be confirmed by the government before being implemented from the beginning of 2023. This will mean the first pay rise for civil servants, over and above the normal indexation, for 20 years. The lower pay scales (D and C) will get a 2% increase in 2023 while the B category will get 2% in 2024. The A category will see pay rise

According to the EIRO industrial relations observatory, civil servants in Estonia are getting pay rises of between 20% and 100% with the higher increases going to the higher paid. Most low paid civil servants will get a 20% increase keeping their salaries in line with the national minimum wage. A collective agreement on civil servants' salary hasn't been reached since 2001, although lower paid civil servants have had pay increases in the intervening years. The current pay increases were negotiated but in the end the EAKL trade union confederation did not sign a collective agreement as the