The Directorate General for Personnel Costs and Public Pensions shall exercise the powers legally conferred on the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration in relation to costs arising from measures concerning the active remuneration of staff in the service of the State Public Sector and the staffing of government bodies. Its main responsibilities in this regard include:
- Regulatory functions and those concerning the study, reporting and control of remuneration, indemnities and other measures that could have economic consequences for staff of the state public sector.
- The design of personnel cost policies and general criteria applicable to remuneration.
- The analysis and quantification of personnel costs in order to draft the relevant report and proposal for their inclusion in the State Budget.
- Consideration of proposals for the approval and modification of job lists, and the study of staffing of organic structures of the State Administration.
- Authorisation of the payroll of collective agreements of staff for whom budgetary regulations allow for this procedure, together with the necessary report for amending their pay conditions under the terms of said regulations.
- Study of the organic structures of the State Administration from the point of view of cost efficiency.
- Prior authorisation for decisions, agreements, conventions, agreements or arrangements resulting in increased public spending on personnel costs.
- Approval of the hiring of staff on a fixed or temporary basis and the appointment of temporary civil servants within the state public sector, where applicable.
- Management of the registration of executive staff of the State Public Sector.
The Directorate General performs these functions through the Subdirectorate General of Costs and Analyses of Remuneration and the Subdirectorate General of Remuneration and Position Management.