Temporary rate public sector Reached 32.5% in the first quarter of 2022The all-time high since the series began twenty years ago, surpassing the private sector rate, where temporary employment was 22.1% during the same period, by more than ten percentage points.
The interim period in Public Administrations increased from 30.4% in the first quarter of 2021 to 31% at the end of that year, and to 32.5% in the first quarter of 2022, reaching the total number of public employees on temporary contracts. 1.13 million, according to the latest data from the Active Population Survey (EPA).
Backwards, The temporary rate in the private sector fell by almost two percentage points, from 23.9% at the end of 2021 to 22.1% in the first quarter.Thanks to the impact of the labor reform, which came into effect on 31 December and significantly limited temporary hiring.
As Miriam Pinillos, the FSC-CCOO’s Public Policy secretary, explained to the EFE, the increase in temporary contracts in the Administration is responding to “a delay in calls for public employment offers and implementation of job stabilization processes”. .
According to the figures CSIF considers, temporality is not the same at all levels of the public sphere, as it is around 10% in the General State Administration (AGE), over 30% in the Autonomous Communities and over 25% in Local Government. .
Gender and age difference
transience in the public sector, significant gender difference, 24% for men and 38.5% for womenIt’s something that CSIF attributes to the fact that “sectors like education and health are very feminine and are the ones that are taking the biggest impact of temporality”.
This difference intensifies with a temporality of 86.7% among those under the age of 25 and rises to 92.6% among women under this age.
For CSIF, The generation gap also arises from the functioning of sectors such as health and education.and denounces that access to “essential areas of the welfare state” is usually through a fixed-term contract.
CCOO adds that for years there is a structural demand that public employment offers have not met as the substitution rate has been suppressed and the workload has increased.
Stabilization Agreement
Temporality is a problem that the Administration has dragged on for decades. did not exceed the 30% barrier until the first quarter of last year.
since 2002, Temporary employment fell by only 20% in the six quarters between 2012 and 2014Despite the fact that in 2017 Cristóbal Montoro, the then Minister of Finance and Public Administration, signed an agreement with the unions to reduce the temporary time to 8%.
The current Government has also committed to reducing temporary employment in the public sector with the emergency measures law approved in July 2021 and processed as a bill in Parliament which includes the agreement between the Executive and the unions to reach this 8% before 2025.
The text stipulates that approximately 300,000 temporary positions considered structural should be awarded before 31 December 2024, for which all processes must be approved and published before 1 June 2022 and collected before 31 December 2022. 2022.
This new stabilization process Competition-Objection for those who are employed temporarily and permanently for three years as of 31 December 2020with experience, which is a decisive factor for assessment.
Quotas filled temporarily and uninterruptedly before January 1, 2016 will be called only by the competition system, as an exception.
While financial compensation will not be paid to those who do not participate in the selection process, failing to pass the process will result in dismissal with a fixed wage compensation of 20 days per year worked.
To avoid the same problem in the future, the law specifies that vacancies are to be filled only by career officials and, where this is not possible, by temporary staff for a maximum period of three years.
Unions want commitment and willpower
Despite the ratification of the law, Pinillos (CCOO), “many governments” have not yet complied with the stabilization processbut he assures that “if they adapt, the goal of ending the scourge of impermanence will undoubtedly be met at the end of the process in 2024”.
Isabel Araque, secretary of UGT Public Service Unity Action, understands that once the executive order is approved, the real issue is governments’ “will to want to put an end to it temporarily once and for all”.
Public Officials sources reminded EFE that, without having any data at the moment, each administration (state, region or local) has to comply with the law and tests appropriate to its own structure or staff scale. many stabilization places have already been collected.