The first agreement on the 2025/27 contract renewal of a management area of the public sector will be signed today, barring unlikely surprises. These are approximately 137,871 healthcare managers, mostly doctors: in the agreement, which moves 968.14 million euros once fully operational, they will find an average increase of 560 euros gross per month: 393 euros, addressed to everyone, come from the basic contractual allocations, which translate into the area the 5.4% increases expected for all public sector workers, while the other 167 averages will actually have diversified concrete translations in the individual paychecks because they depend on additional resources for benefits.
Negotiation in forced stages
With the now usual accelerated pace for this round, although unprecedented in the long history of public sector contract renewals, the agreement arrives just over seven months after the definitive signature for the last three-year period, celebrated on 27 February at the Aran. The actual negotiations began on April 29th, and therefore took up just over four months net of the summer break: a sudden pace, beaten only by that of the agreement of nurses and other staff in the sector, signed on July 29th after three months of negotiations at the public employment negotiation agency led by Antonio Naddeo.
As always happens for the 2025/27 contracts, signed for the first time during the three-year period of reference, the increases will not all arrive in the pay slip, because the contract provides for a fully operational progression over the three years: the final stage, with the last 33% of contractual increases, will therefore start on 1 January 2027.
The news
Another of the innovations brought by the contract also moves on the economic field, which provides for an increase in position salaries based on experience, starting from the third year, and a non-negative evaluation. The residual funds for supplementary bargaining can be used to finance corporate welfare, with another move that aims to incentivize this increasingly important institution in the toolbox of contractual negotiations despite the general public finance rules that continue to limit its extensive use.
Other aspects addressed by the text now awaiting final examination also introduce new features developed in other contracts among healthcare managers. This is the case of the regulation on psychological support and legal aid in the event of assaults, borrowed on the example of the nurses' contract, and the recognition of allowances on days off, a transversal theme for the entire public sector after the court sentences that had rejected the old restrictions. On this point, to close the dispute the contracts will probably need a primary rule, which has already been attempted without success in the conversion of the last PA decree. More specific, however, is the rewriting of the regulations for the definition of the tariffs of intra-moenia freelance professional activity, in the final articles of the text.
The next moves
The signature, at least based on the atmosphere on the eve, should arrive unanimously, in line with what almost always happened in this round after the recovery of the CGIL, an acronym that was not a signatory to the agreement on 2022/24. Meanwhile, on the edge of the field of renewals for public management, the area of local functions is heating up, whose act of direction has taken its definitive form.
