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Mojacar sets salaries and council meetings for the next 4 years

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This morning a meeting was held to establish the councils, wages for councillors and the frequency of the ordinary plenary meetings. Ordinary plenary meetings have been set, for the first time in the history of democracy in Mojácar, to be from now on held at 10am on the last Thursday of every 2 months. For which we proposed a counter-opinion and asked for the meetings to be held once a month and always in the Continue reading Mojacar sets salaries and council meetings for the next 4 years→

Vera town secretary earns more than President Rajoy

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The Secretary of Vera townhall is on a higher wage than President Rajoy of Spain, according to leaked figures. Rajoy is being paid €78.185,04 this year. Chummy from Vera (his name wasn’t published) is on a base salary of €72.470,32, plus a €6.000 “productivity” bonus. Meaning he’ll earn €285.28 more than President Rajoy this year. The average annual Spanish salary, by the way, is just €22.790, or about €1.300 a month after tax. (Not round Continue reading Vera town secretary earns more than President Rajoy→

Mojacar’s plan to give all townhall workers €1000 scuppered

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Rosmari had a plan to give all of her workers in Mojacar townhall a “bonus” of €1,000 this year, but this has now been scuppered after it was ruled to be illegal. The general consensus is that this was a cheap electioneering trick by Rosmari to buy votes ahead of the 2015 elections. OK, not that cheap – it would have cost the townhall €139,000, hardly a trifling sum for a townhall which already has Continue reading Mojacar’s plan to give all townhall workers €1000 scuppered→

Mojacar Mayor must take WHOPPING pay cut under new law

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Our local newspaper Actualidad Almanzora reveals that Mayor of Mojacar RosMari must take a whopping 5000 euro paycut under the new law governing the salaries of politicians. She currently earns 50.400 euros a year, after she voted herself a massive 42% recently. Under the new law, she can’t earn any more than 45.000 euros. Mojacar has 8360 residents, so she costs los mojaqueros…. about 6 euros per head. How much is 5.400 euros, really? Well, Continue reading Mojacar Mayor must take WHOPPING pay cut under new law→

Mayor pay capped at 100,000 euros a year

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No Mayor can earn over €100,000 a year after a change to the law was approved. So Mayors of towns over 500.000 people get up to €100,000; 300.001 y 500.000 pop up to €90,000; 150.001 y 300.000 pop earn up to €80.000; 75.001 y 150.000 pop will get up to €75,000; 50.001 y 75.000 get €65.000; 20.001 y 50.000 get €50.000; 10.001 y 20.000 get €50,000; 5.001 y 10.000 get €45,000 and between 1.000 y Continue reading Mayor pay capped at 100,000 euros a year→

From 42 types of work contracts to just 4

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38 types of work contract will go out of the window next year and be replaced by just four types: indefinite, temporary, training and apprenticeship. Currently, there are an amazing 42 types of work contract in Spain, which is, of course, just paper-pushing for bureaucrats. The state will throw out all of the variations and reduce them to just the basic four types, a move which will mainly help small and medium businesses. An associated Continue reading From 42 types of work contracts to just 4→

Minimum wage frozen at 645 euros a month for 2014

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The government has announced that the minimum wage level in Spain will be frozen at 645 euros a month for 2014. That’s just 21,51€ a day for eight hours of work. Or, to put it another way, a minimum wage chappie will work all day to afford two G&T’s in a fancy chiringuito on the playa (but has enough for the bus home and a chupa chup to keep him busy whilst musing on the folly Continue reading Minimum wage frozen at 645 euros a month for 2014→

No salaries for Turre workers this month

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Employees of Turre townhall were informed this evening that they won’t be getting paid this month. It seems that the mayor (Arturo Grima, PP) has a choice between paying the salaries, or paying off the interest the town owes Santander bank, according to Councillor Martin Morales (IU). And if he chooses to pay his workers, Santander can lodge criminal proceedings against him, because he had cash in the bank and owed the bankers money. So, Continue reading No salaries for Turre workers this month→

Velez Rubio’s mayor earns more than the PM, claims opposition

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7.987,48€ is what Miguel Martínez- Carlón, PP Mayor of Velez Rubio, was paid in June, according to what the opposition PSOE party have published in their local newsletter, which means, according to their figures, that he earnt more than the PM of Spain, Mariano Rajoy. Digging into the figures, we see that the amount is slightly exaggerated – the amount paid to the Mayor included his summer bonus, the cost of his social security and a Continue reading Velez Rubio’s mayor earns more than the PM, claims opposition→