European Institutions : pay and pensions rise by 1.9 % net

The USF trade union reports that staff in European institutions, bodies and agencies (with the exception of the European Central Bank) will get a net 4.5% increase in salaries, pensions, and social allowances backdated to 1 July 2022. This is on top of the 2.4% increase applied earlier this year, giving a total net increase of 7%. This is the result of a formula that has been applied since the early 1980s, following industrial action by USF both then and later to defend the formula. The salaries (and later also pensions) of staff have kept pace with the development in the purchasing power of

Staff in European institutions, bodies and agencies will get a net 2.4 % increase in salaries, pensions, and social allowances backdated to 1 January 2022. This is the result of a formula that has been applied since the early 1980s, when EPSU affiliate, Union Syndicale Fédérale carried out successful industrial action, also defending the gains later through further industrial action. The salaries (and later also pensions) of staff have kept pace with the development in the purchasing power of civil servants working in the national governments of the Member States. This increase reflects the

(February 2017) After a five-year pay freeze (2010-2014), workers of the European Institutions are to get a 3.3 % net increase on their salaries, for 2016. Union Syndicale Fédérale, the main union in the sector, had negotiated a formula for annual salary increases procedure that takes inflation and the evolution of purchasing power of central government officials in the Member States as a basis. This has been in force for roughly 35 years, covering the roughly 70 000 officials, other servants, and pensioners of the EU Institutions.. As measure of austerity, this method was suspended for a 5