All positions must be convened before December 31, 2023 and the offer must be executed in 2 years
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The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday the largest ordinary offer of public employment (OEP) in history, made up of 39,574 jobs, 15.8% more than the 34,151 in 2022, of which 27,246 correspond to the free shift and 12,328 to internal promotion.
“The record figure is established due to the objective need to strengthen a workforce that has been weakened by years of cuts and zero replacement rates,” said the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, at the press conference after the Minister council.
It should be remembered that last year a total of 44,787 positions were approved, of which 34,151 positions corresponded to the ordinary offer and another 10,636 to the offer to stabilize interim personnel.
This year, of the total of 39,574 places, 27,246 correspond to the free shift and 12,328 to internal promotion. Within the free shift, 18,621 jobs are linked to the replacement of troops and 8,625 to net employment. Thus, net job creation is set at 8,625 jobs, which represents 31.6% of the free shift jobs.
The agreement for this public employment offer has been signed by the CSIF and the UGT, while the CCOO has refused to sign it for lack of specific figures at the time of the negotiation and because the document presented by the Executive “does not guarantee public service to the citizenship”.
ALMOST 30,000 POSITIONS FOR THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
Of the total number of jobs in 2023, some 29,818 jobs correspond to the General State Administration and of these, 19,947 are free entry and 9,871 are internally promoted. For the Administration of Justice, 1,907 places will be allocated, of which 1,215 are new entrants.
For the National Police Corps, 2,833 positions are opened, of which 2,600 are new entries, while for the Civil Guard 2,875 positions are enabled, 2,520 new entries.
Other positions included to highlight are 57 for teaching staff, 66 for the staff of the National Institute of Health Management (Ingesa) or 236 for statutory staff of the Defense Hospital Network. Along with the above, it should be noted that in May 2,141 positions were already approved for the Armed Forces and the Civil Guard Officers Scale.
Also included are 1,025 positions that correspond to Social Security to manage the minimum vital income, 500 positions in the scale of civil servants with national qualifications who mainly carry out their work in the local administration, and another 2,500 more positions for managing entities of the Social Security that facilitate face-to-face care and assistance to citizens.
Also included are 600 positions for members of the Information Systems and Technology (ICT) Corps to deepen a digital transition and another 254 will be distributed among public entities in the port sector, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), the National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) and the Prado Museum.
CSIF has defended having agreed with the Government on this “unprecedented” offer of public employment, due to “responsibility” for the deterioration suffered by public services in recent years.
“Our administrations were on the edge in the pandemic and continue to be in a very delicate situation due to lack of personnel,” they warned in a statement.
STREAMLINE AND MODERNIZE THE SELECTION PROCESSES
At the press conference, Montero highlighted the fact that, while between 2012 and 2018, 124,454 public jobs were lost, between 2018 and 2022 –during the Pedro Sánchez government– 169,734 positions have been won.
With the aim of expediting the deadlines this year, the Executive has included in the regulations the obligation for the calls to be published before December 31, 2023. “In these remaining months each and every one of the governing bodies must have convened their job offers”, assured the minister, after pointing out that the processes must be completed within two years.
In addition, it is intended to promote more agile and effective selection processes, with a maximum duration of 9 months for the opposition phase and a maximum of 4 tests.
They also want to push the professionalization of the selection bodies and the democratization of access to public employment, continuing with the decentralization of tests and the possibility of calling with a territorial distribution of places.
