Exams and competitions—a flood of calls for the opposition—is planned for this 2023 election. town halls from the province. The reason for this is not just because it coincides with the election year. One of the main reasons lies in the fact that local governments have to burn their batteries during almost mandatory marches to comply with guidelines from Brussels. The European Union has been warning Spain for some time that it should reduce the temporary nature of its Administration and put an end to the recurring and in some cases turning into temporary periods in most municipalities of Alicante. , practically 50% of the workforce, with officials involved in this state of job uncertainty for over two decades.
The stabilization process will certainly not be rosy. What happened is proof of that. Elche During the current February, the clocks are rushing. Considering that a call affecting 400 workers at the Elche City Council violated the right of access to any square on equal terms due to the higher scores of the municipal employees than the others, a penalty imposed on the 2nd of them eliminated the grounds. administrations.
In Elche, an appeal was filed with the TSJCV after a judge canceled a summons that affected 400 people.
The Consistory hides behind the fact that the stabilization of the provisional period is exceptional and advocates the scale implemented by the Government of Pedro Sánchez to end the temporality and comply with the Convention, approved in 2021. Directives from Europe. Last Thursday, the Human Resources area (RR HH) filed an appeal with TSJCV, based on a report that will approve the Secretary of State for Public Administration to score four times higher for one local Authority employee than for another.
Long years
“After all, this is a problem that has been dragging on for years,” says Ramón Abad, Elche’s HR consultant. This newspaper contacted the municipalities of the state’s most populous municipalities and regional capitals to learn about their stabilization plans, and received responses from all but Alicante and Villena. “We aim to solve the Turkish problem with extraordinary stability plans. temporariness and more numbers to have a more agile and efficient Administration,” says Abad. The aim at Elche is to stabilize the 489 temporary staff positions, which make up approximately 25% of the workforce.
Inside TorreviejaIn line with the general course of the province, the stabilization process continues. We are currently in the process of preparing the tentative lists of calls and preparing the exams. “It’s going to take a while, about two years, because there’s a lot of work that needs to be stabilized,” predicts Juan Carlos Carmona, HR chief executive of the City Council. They show satisfaction in the city of Salt because their base is advancing without any resources against and agreeing with three unions: CC OO, UGT and CSIF. In total, Torrevieja offers 108 positions for civil servants, 114 workers by competition, and seven combined competition-opposition.
Before leaving the Vega Baja region, orihuela There are about forty ongoing selection processes through merit competitions to comply with the stabilization regulation. “We are completing all processes and merging positions so that officials can take office,” explains Luisa Boné, mayor of RR HH. 259 places are currently fixed in Oriolan Town Hall. “We establish specific bases for each call, and they do not affect other processes,” the councilor says, adding: “We are faced with an undramatic change experienced by some workers who have been in a situation for more than 25 years in the interim».
formula
The formula that Orihuela bets on includes betting on merit competitions, reducing exams and giving City Council staff a three-to-one rating. Acknowledging that “the doors are not closed to new workers either,” Boné says, “The fairest thing is to regulate stability and put an end to what has become erratic for workers.” In the Oriolan Consistory, the interim period was extended for many years and reached the final result. 45% of the workforce. “From now on, we are working to ensure that this situation does not happen again. That’s why we bet on public job offers with owned places,” Boné concludes.
further north, BenidormIt has been reported from the City Council’s communications team that the baselines for their current processes approved in the General Discussion Table have been published in the BOP, but are still awaiting publication in the BOE. As a result, none of the pending stabilization processes have yet been called. In any case, they do not believe that there is any problem or incident at their base.
The target set by Brussels is to keep the provisional rate at 8%, which is barely met in Alicante.
In the case of San Vicente del Raspeig, the BOE issued a call for procedures to consolidate and stabilize 45 temporary workers at the end of last year. The procedure, in case of consolidation, temporary or non-permanent employment positions To hold positions before 1 January 2016 with a merit competition and, in the case of stability, with a competitive examination before 31 December 2020. The positions of civil servants who are not affected by these processes will be included in the 2023 Public Employment Offer and it is aimed to place the City Council below the 8% threshold determined by Europe.
The mayor, Jesús Villar, who is also head of the HR area, said: “The commitment to lift competition-opposition these positions” and “work will continue to cover the Public Employment Offer” throughout this year. Likewise, Villar himself adds: “45 workers will benefit from consolidation. We are closing a long-running process across all institutions. Thus, even though it has been challenged by Europe We’re going to put an end to the uncertainty. They couldn’t let more years pass with the break ».
plans
Alberto Belda, Alcoy’s HR consultant, also shares the following plans: stabilization from your municipality: «The job offer has been approved according to the stabilization procedure established by the regulations. We are one of the municipalities that do their job well and we didn’t have that many people in this situation. As Belda reports, an important stabilization plan has already been implemented in 2019, so the cases of officials who have accumulated in Alcoy for two decades in a temporary state are not reproduced. “Maximum cases are eight or nine years,” he says.
In the Municipality of Alcoy, work is being done to prepare the bases in order to obtain new positions through competition and competition-opposition, and this process is aimed to be finalized before the end of this year. However, the provisional percentage alcohol It is one of the lowest among the major municipalities of the province. It is around 8%, that is, it complies with European parameters. HR councilor from Alcoy concludes by saying, “In the previous stabilization period, we discussed the situation of workers participating between 2015 and 2018, now we have contracts from January 2019.”
Announcement
It has been reported from the Elda City Council that a total of thirty calls for places to stabilize temporary employment have been approved with the aim of reducing the temporary rate to below 8%. Elda already first approved in 2017 Public Employment Offer The use of this particular procedure and, in recent years, developed nine different electoral processes, calling for fifteen positions for stability between the City Council and its institutions.
Now these thirty more positions have been called up, whose processes should be finalized before the end of 2024, subject to certain bases that were unanimously agreed and approved. municipal associations. In the case of positions occupied since 2016, merit is valued to the same extent as accredited experience in any management, unlike what has happened in other municipal buildings, with no stage of opposition, only to be stabilized by a competition of merit. It is true that in case of equality, the people with the most experience in the City Council will have priority.
Finally, in case denial, Consistory has 565 employees and 45% are temporary officers. In recent years, the HR field has focused on achieving employment stability that puts an end to high rates of temporary employment, one of the challenges in staff selection in the City Council, which has also been conditioned by the aging of the workforce. 48% of staff are over 51 years old and need to attract young talent with digital skills.
Compliance with the deadlines specified in the Law No. 20/2021 on urgent measures to reduce temporality public employment and the municipal planning plan, guidelines and exceptional call were approved in November 2022 through the merit competition of 33 places and hundred from subgroups A-1, A-2 and C-1 and selective stabilization processes of competition-opposition. Places in C-2 subgroups and occupational groups.