The national public sector parity will resume this afternoon with a meeting between representatives of the Government and unionists from the National Civil Personnel Union (UPCN) and the State Workers Association (ATE). The negotiations, which were previously at a standstill at the end of December 2024, will return to the discussion table.
According to union sources, the meeting will take place at the Ministry of Labor headquarters at Callao 114 starting at 2 PM. Representatives of the Government and the unions led by Andrés Rodríguez (UPCN) and Rodolfo Aguiar (ATE) will be present.
In the last meeting in December, the state parity was halted due to the lack of a salary offer from the employer sector. Therefore, one of the points to be discussed today will be the retroactivity of any agreement to January, a month in which no increase was implemented.
Regarding salary increases, the last agreement signed last October established a 3% increase for November and December, along with the payment of a bonus of $30,000. This parity period, which started in June, has accumulated a total increase of 13.14%. While UPCN accepted this increase, ATE rejected it as insufficient.
The negotiation will be subject to the conditions established by the Executive Power through Administrative Decision 1/25, which determines that salary increases in the public sector must remain within the budgetary limits of each entity, in line with the 2023 National Budget extended for the second time.
