Some 10,000 workers will sign up for the merit contest and will not have to take the exam
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Governing Council of the Canary Islands, in its session held this Wednesday, ratified the agreement reached by majority between the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) and the unions with representation in the Sectoral Table for the stabilization of the 12,146 professionals who will be able to benefit from the provisions of Law 20/2021 of December 28 on urgent measures to reduce temporary employment in public employment.
The agreement regarding the bases and criteria of the calls for the stabilization processes affects 75 professional categories and, of the total, nearly 10,000 employees will be able to opt for stabilization through the merit assessment system and, the rest, through competitive examination. .
The document ratified by the Governing Council establishes the criteria and bases of the calls for the Public Employment Offer for the year 2022 of SCS statutory personnel and the additional OPE for the stabilization of temporary employment of SCS statutory and labor personnel.
The calls for said selection processes must be published before December 31 of this year and the resolution of these selection processes must end before December 31, 2024.
The agreement, signed by the State Confederation of Medical Unions of the Canary Islands, UGT, CCOO and Sepca –it is not supported by Intersindical–, includes the criteria that will govern the calls for access to the status of permanent statutory personnel that are called in execution of the extraordinary processes of stabilization of temporary employment, both in the modality of access by assessment of merits (derived from the sixth and eighth additional provision of Law 20/2021) and through the opposition competition system (derived from article 2 of Law 20/2021 of December 28).
These criteria follow in a similar way to those signed by the general administration but with the singularities of the health field regulated by the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System.
ACCESS BY MERITS
The merit-based access system that vacancies occupied in the last five years may take advantage of, contemplates the assessment of professional and curricular merits, mainly taking into account experience in the category in question and a greater weighting in the services provided. in the SCS, in accordance with the recommendations agreed upon by the Human Resources Commission of the National Health System.
In this sense, the professional merits will account for 70 percent of the maximum score and the rest of the merits 30 percent.
COMPETITION-OPPOSITION
The system of access by competitive examination, to which the positions occupied between three and five years will be eligible, contemplates a valuation in the competitive phase of 40 percent of the total score in which the experience in the category in which it is concerned and a greater weighting in the services provided in the SCS.
Professional merits will account for 90 percent of the maximum score and the rest of the merits will account for 10 percent, in the context of the scale negotiated on the sectoral table.
The opposition phase, which will be carried out first and which will be valued with 60 percent of the total score, not having an eliminatory nature and will consist of the obligatory completion of a test-type questionnaire.
STABILITY AND CONTINUITY
Given the exceptional nature of this type of process in the execution of extraordinary offers to stabilize temporary employment, and in order to guarantee stability and continuity in the provision of health care, the agreement establishes that selected applicants who already have the status of statutory or employment personnel, temporary or substitute of the same category and, where appropriate, specialty in the SCS, they will be directly awarded the position they have been occupying.
The rest of the selected applicants will award according to the order of points obtained and the preference expressed.
The government spokesman, Julio Pérez, has detailed that before the end of the year the bases must be approved to start running tests next year and that everything is finished by December 31, 2024, while noting that since the Executive is “very excited” to solve a “structural problem” of the Canarian public administration services.
In the specific case of Education, Pérez has admitted that “the discrepancy has not been resolved” regarding the state decree, on which both the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Education, Manuel Armas, believe that “it must be corrected”. because the uniform norm “does not do justice to the professionals” of the islands.
He has even said that “it is more bloody” in the case of music conservatories as the door is opened to a “possible grievance” with applicants from other autonomous communities.
However, he has pointed out that “the process has to continue” and the demands of some workers of the General Directorate of Relations with Justice and the Canary Islands Institute of Hemodonation and Hemotherapy are also pending, which “does not stop being a problem but is relatively minor with set”.
