The Ministry of Public Function and the unions CSIF, UGT and CCOO held a new meeting this Tuesday within the framework of the negotiation for a new agreement, focused on this occasion on employment. At the meeting, the parties addressed the “streamline and improvement of selection processes, the promotion of internal promotion and professional development, personnel planning, attention to citizens and public services, equality and non-discrimination, among others,” as indicated by the department headed by Óscar López.
One of the key points of the meeting was the replacement rate. This is a percentage that limits the release of places in public employment offers based on the number of dismissals that are going to occur and is updated in each General State Budget law. The Government promised to eliminate it by 2025, but the impossibility of approving new accounts has meant that it is maintained. The ministry is now “willing to review it, with an alternative personnel planning mechanism,” CSIF sources say. This mechanism would replace “progressively the current replacement rate,” they indicate.
The elimination of the replacement rate is a demand of all union organizations. “The three of us have said that it has to be eliminated,” said the general secretary of UGT Servicios Públicos Isabel Araque at the end of the meeting, who also indicated interest in “expediting both newly created employment and internal promotion within the public administrations themselves.” The latter is also an old claim of civil servants, since it allows them to rise in the administration’s organizational chart. CSIF sources indicate that the selection processes should not last, “in any case,” more than one year.
These voices point out that the Ministry has addressed some of their complaints, such as the promotion of citizen service offices, measures related to equality and non-discrimination and occupational health and the creation of a Public Employment observatory, which allows analyzing and proposing measures regarding public employment. Specifically, Araque has highlighted that “there is a very strong commitment” to improvements in risk prevention and occupational health.
In any case, this is the first meeting in which employment issues have been addressed in the negotiation of the new framework, which should continue to be developed over the coming weeks. As is also pending the salary increase, which the Government has proposed multi-yearly, until 2028, with the 2025 slope completely differentiated and without loss of purchasing power.
Source: www.eldiario.es
