SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands, the councils, the town councils and unions with greater representative weight among public workers have agreed to the creation of a work commission to promote the process of stabilization of the staff of the Canary Islands public administrations, which will be made up of representatives of the Executive , from Fecai, Fecam and the unions.
This has been agreed during a meeting that has served to share the progress and obstacles that the different administrations are encountering to face this process that, in accordance with the provisions of Law 20/2021, of urgent measures to reduce employment. temporary public, must be completed by December 31, 2024.
The Minister of the Presidency, Nieves Lady Barreto, has committed, at the request of all the unions, to create as of January a specific working group on stabilization “to push all administrations, the autonomous community, but also city councils and councils, to meet that deadline that we are all very concerned about,” explained Barreto.
The counselor has recognized “personnel shortages” to face this challenge, but wanted to make it clear that the maximum objective and commitment of the Government of the Canary Islands is to “push everything we have to push to reach December 31 with stabilized places.”
Nieves Lady Barreto has warned of the complex situation that the General Directorate of Public Function is facing. As she explained, of the 36 months that the Law gives to complete the stabilization process, the previous Government consumed 16 months just to reach the initial phase of submitting applications, which concluded in April 2023.
He explained that no organizational measure was taken in the previous mandate to prepare the General Directorate with more human and material resources to face the extraordinary work involved in carrying out 187 calls to stabilize 3,499 positions for civil servants and labor personnel. In this sense, the counselor announced that she is working to incorporate reinforcement personnel by 2024.
The provisional lists of those admitted are currently being published and, given the high volume of applications that must be corrected, the forecast is that the final lists will not be published until February 2024 and the execution of the selective tests will begin. and the assessment of merits.
Nieves Lady Barreto has reported that the Public Service has also detected a failure in the Extraordinary Stabilization Offer approved by the previous Government in May 2022, since a significant number of places within 13 categories were left out of this process. different jobs.
JUSTICE, EDUCATION AND HEALTH
Regarding the Administration of Justice, Deputy Minister Cesáreo Rodríguez recalled that the stabilization process depends on the Ministry of Justice and for this purpose a selective process has been convened by merit-based competition and another by competitive examination. In relation to this last process, he stated that the exam is scheduled for next March 2, coinciding with all the processes of the different bodies.
As detailed by Deputy Minister Manuel Cabrera, regarding the Education competition, whose tests will take place in the months of June and July 2024, the final lists of applicants admitted and excluded for entry into the Corps of Secondary Education Teachers, Teachers of Official Language Schools, Teachers of Plastic Arts and Design, Workshop Teachers of Plastic Arts and Design and Specialist Teachers in Singular Sectors of Vocational Training, as well as for the Body of Teachers.
In total, about 27,000 people aspire to the 1,145 places announced, between Secondary School and other bodies (about 15,000 applicants for 696 places) and the Teacher Corps (12,000 people for 449 places).
Regarding the merit contest system, the final lists of admitted and excluded candidates for entry into the Corps of Secondary Education Teachers, Teachers of Official Language Schools, Teachers of Plastic Arts and Design, Workshop Teachers have already been published. of Plastic Arts and Design, Specialist Teachers in Singular Sectors of Professional Training, and Body of Teachers.
In addition, Education has ex officio excluded from the exceptional merit competition more than 2,600 teachers who obtained positions in other Communities. The measure, which favors interim workers who work in the Canary Islands. The date on which the contest will be resolved is yet to be defined, but it will be agreed upon within the Sectoral Table, explained Cabrera, who highlights the importance of “in these procedures, there is maximum transparency and consensus with the groups involved.” “.
Finally, the OPE for 2023 includes not only the replacement places for the different Corps (1,063), but also those for stabilization of the Conservatories (93), after a series of vicissitudes.
The Minister of Health, Esther Monzón, has reported that the procedures for the stabilization process of SCS personnel are going at a good pace and meeting the deadlines. She added that the stabilization processes of the statutory and labor personnel of the SCS are made up of a total of 12,428 positions, of which 9,867 people will be able to access directly through a merit-based competition.
He specified that Health has the largest stabilization process of the entire Government: “We would be talking about nearly 13,000 positions affected by this process and that as of today there are 160,000 applications submitted to be able to scale it,” he said.
The objective of these measures is to reduce the temporality of the SCS templates to comply with the provisions of Law 20/2021, which affects 113 professional categories.
Likewise, he added that 160,932 applications for participation have been submitted, since the same worker can apply for different positions depending on their qualification, and that the lists of people admitted and excluded from each category will continue to be published in a staggered manner, until January. of 2024.
He also stated that the deadlines for the publication of the 113 repertoires of questions are being met and that group A1, which is the doctors, will begin to present the merits on January 29, for which they are working on an application computing that facilitates and streamlines the process.
CITY COUNCIL AND UNIONS.
For her part, the president of FECAM, María Concepción Brito, has advanced the commitment made by the Federation: “We have committed to updating all the information about these processes in each of the 88 municipalities.”
The Secretary of Union Action of the Federation of Citizen Services of CCOO, Juan Miguel Suárez, has highlighted the creation of the monitoring commission and added that they will work “to make it possible for the stabilization process to be a success in the Canary Islands” .
Francisco Bautista, general secretary of Public Services of UGT Canarias, has drawn “positive conclusions” from the meeting, and Gerardo Rodríguez, from STEC-Intersindical Canaria, has shown his concern in the educational field and has requested a review of the stabilization processes that They are being carried out to protect Canarian teachers as much as possible because it is an outermost region.
From the Canary Islands Public Employees’ Union (SEPCA), its general secretary, Manuel González, has made a positive assessment of the event: “We all have to put in the work to comply with the stabilization deadlines established by the Law, without prejudice to “If some measures have to be adopted, we all do them together.”
