The Council of Tenerifethrough the Presidency, Treasury and Modernization area, will make 1,055 workers of the insular administration permanentof which 405 belong to the local Corporation and another 650 correspond to the dependent public sector, who currently hold temporary jobs of a structural nature.
The second vice president and councilor of the area, Berta Pérez, explains that this is the balance of the stabilization process that the Cabildo is developing “to reduce temporality and thereby contribute to improving the public service and the attention given to citizens”.
Berta Pérez highlighted that the Insular Corporation has been the first to Canary Islands in initiating the procedure to carry out the stabilization of positions and comply with Law 20/2021, of December 28, on urgent measures to reduce temporary employment in public employment, which includes structural positions occupied temporarily and uninterruptedly during certain periods established in the regulation itself.
“It has been a few months of intense work in which, through the insular directorate of Human Resources led by Lidia Pereira, we have held various sessions with the union organizations that have culminated in an agreement to call the processes to stabilize a large part of the workforce who works as a temporary in the Corporation”, influenced the second vice president.
Specifically, with regard to the Cabildo, they have already convened 137 job consolidation and stabilization positionsto which will be added, before December 31 of this year, 268 civil servant positions, among which are 192 long-term positions that have been occupied in structural positions uninterruptedly since before January 1, 2016 and 76 places occupied for at least three years before December 31, 2020.
In total, the 405 seats of the Island Council that will be affected by the stabilization process This year they represent 15.8% of the 1,511 public employees of the Corporation and allow progress in one of the strategic objectives of the current mandate.
In this context, Berta Pérez recalled that the reduction of temporary is one of the projects included in the Human Resources Strategy approved by the insular Government, in compliance with a motion presented by the Socialist Group and approved by the insular plenary session, to design a plan that allows integrating the objectives of the institution with those of the staff.
“This is an important step that allows us to continue promoting coordinated work and improvement of the working conditions of the workers of the Cabildo and its public sector, aware that it is the institution’s greatest asset to respond to the needs of citizens,” he stressed.
The also Minister of Presidency, Finance and Modernization explained that, as it cannot be otherwise, the calls are open to free attendance” and pointed out that, depending on the type of places convened, the access system of merit contest or contest-opposition will be applied.
