Madrid, (EFE) wages, according to the organizing organizations.
Legal sources have informed EFE that the lawyers will receive a monthly supplement to their salaries that will be between 430 and 450 euros gross, depending on the different levels and functions.
In a statement sent by the National College of Lawyers (CNLAJ), the strike committee explains that the objective is to sign tomorrow at the ministry the text to end the strike, after clarifying “some terms of the final agreement that remain to be qualified.” .
The strikers will formally transfer their decision to the Government, after the meetings led by the Secretary of State for Public Function, Lidia Sánchez Milán, and by the Secretary General for Innovation and Quality of the Public Justice Service have intensified in the last week Manuel Olmedo.
Through this agreement, the lawyers agree to renounce the claim that they have made their flag during these more than two months of unemployment, the so-called down payment clause, for which they asked that their salary be referenced to that of judges and prosecutors so as not to never charge less than 85% with respect to these two legal operators.
In exchange, there will be a gradual increase of between 430 and 450 euros gross per month in their salaries, which, according to Justice, are currently between 40,000 and 60,000 euros per year.
The vast majority of lawyers from all over Spain have been in favor of the Justice proposal: 76% have voted in favor and 21% against, with an abstention of 3%, according to the CNLAJ.
However, in some provinces such as Madrid, the no vote has won because the Ministry’s document seems “insufficient.” “We are a little disappointed, but something is something,” one of the officials has acknowledged to EFE.
“If we don’t have a down payment for someone to tow us, in a few years we’ll be down again (…). In four or five years the agreement remains blurred”, argued the same source, who is demanding a remuneration table like that of judges and prosecutors, a body that meets every five years to review their salaries.
The latest data provided by the strike committee estimates the impact of the strike at more than 360,000 suspended trials, 424,000 lawsuits pending distribution and 1,280 million euros unemployed in the court accounts, a scenario that will not make it possible to “recover the normality during 2023”.
According to Justice, 20.22% of the lawyers have seconded the strike on Monday, while the conveners place this figure at around 78%.