Proposal to equalize pay for the National Police and Civil Guard

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1. The bill would establish that the specific allowance of the National Police and the Civil Guard could not be lower than what the regional police forces receive, and the Autonomous Communities would have to provide the State with information on those salaries.
2. The rule would apply to career civil servants of the National Police and the Civil Guard.
3. The Government would have three months to adapt destination allowances, territoriality, shift work pay, and per diems and court attendance pay to the social and geographic reality of each area.
4. Officers in second activity or reserve would receive the pay equalization at a proportion equivalent to 80 % of that of active service officers.
5. The Government would have three months to issue the necessary rules, after consulting the most representative unions, and the law would take effect the day after its publication in the official state gazette.
6. The proposal is justified by a pay gap that has existed for more than 30 years between the State law enforcement forces and the Mozos de Escuadra, the Policía Foral and the Ertzaintza, even though the State forces have broader duties. It relies on several court rulings that consider lower pay for the same work discriminatory.

Who it affects

• Career civil servants of the National Police: Their specific allowance would be guaranteed to be equal to or higher than that of the regional police forces.
• Civil servants of the Civil Guard: The bill would affect them the same way as the National Police regarding pay.
• Officers in second activity or reserve: They would receive the equalization at 80 % of the active service amount.
• Autonomous Communities with their own police forces: They would have to give the State information on those officers' pay.
• The Government: It would have three months to develop the rule and amend Royal Decree 950/2005.

Words worth knowing

Complemento específico (specific allowance)

Part of a civil servant's salary paid for the specific features of their job.

Segunda actividad o reserva (second activity or reserve)

Situations in which an officer stops performing operational service, usually due to age or other causes, but remains a civil servant.

Turnicidad (shift work pay)

An allowance paid for working in shifts, for example at night or on weekends.

Policías Autonómicas (regional police forces)

Police bodies that report to an Autonomous Community: the Mozos de Escuadra, the Policía Foral and the Ertzaintza.

Proposición de ley (bill)

A text in the form of a law introduced by members of Congress for debate; it is not an approved law until it is voted on and published.

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