2025–27 National Collective Labour Agreement for Education and Research: final approval given to the financial provisions

Today’s Council of Ministers meeting gave its final approval to the economic provisions of the 2025–2027 Education and Research Sector Collective Agreement.

The process of adopting the financial provisions of the National Collective Labour Agreement (CCNL) is therefore in its final stages, as set out in Minister Valditara’s policy statement, which will enable school staff to benefit from further pay rises. Specifically, this amounts to €143 for teachers and €107 for ATA staff, in addition to back pay totalling €855 for teachers and €633 for ATA staff.

“We are continuing our vital commitment to supporting school staff,” said Minister Giuseppe Valditara. “Our priority remains to continually improve their pay and welfare conditions. Since the Government took office, we have achieved an extraordinary result by signing three collective agreements for the education sector, leading to total monthly pay rises of 412 euros for teachers and 304 euros for ATA staff.”

This result, Valditara added, “was made possible thanks to the funding secured through this Government’s budget laws, to which we, as the Ministry of Education and Merit, have added further resources for school staff, specifically 300 million for the 2019–2021 contract and 240 million for the 2022–2024 contract”.