The regulation, which will regulate the activity of more than 100,000 people employed in the Basque public administrations, opens the door to non-EU workers except in three sectors, including Health. All unions have been against the law.
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The Basque Parliament will approve this Thursday the Public Employment Law, which organizes and regulates the activity of more than 100,000 employees who work in the public administrations of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV). The standard regulates all aspects of professional development and defines and consolidates its own model of Basque public employment.
The bill, approved by the government council more than a year ago, aims to “modernize and harmonize” the public function, as well as update the Public Function Law currently in force for 32 years.
As planned, the regulation will go ahead with the votes in favor of the partners of the Basque Government (PNV and PSE-EE) and the abstention from PP+Cswho agreed to create the scale of jobs in Penitentiary Institutions, which will make it easier for these positions to go out to public competition.
Between the news, opens the door for extra-community workers (from outside the EU) to be public employees, although it establishes three exceptions: Health, communication and technology. In addition, it establishes different modalities so that civil servants can progress within the Administration and contemplates the figure of Professional Public Management so that, through a public procedure and with an assessment of merits, appointments to the managerial level can be made.
It also incorporates principles of gender equality, with measures such as the possibility of changing the job to another location in the event of sexist violence, as well as linguistic equality with “a Basque-speaking administration that carries out its functions in the same way as it does in Spanish “. It also includes the call for independent selection processes for people with intellectual disabilities.
The unions, against
All the unions with representation in the civil service have criticized the law promoted by the Basque Government. LAB will focus abroad of the Chamber under the slogan “This Basque Public Employment Law does not belong to the workers”.
According to THE Athe majority in the sector, “the project is more than ten years old, has not been approved in the three previous legislatures and has been directly rejected by all the unions”, he criticized, to denounce that this project presented by the Basque Government “subjects employees, as well as public services, private interests and a commitment to perpetuating temporary employment, privatization, job destruction and cutbacks, the main problems of the Basque public sector”.
LABwho has described the norm as “neoliberal and subordinate”, assures that “the only novelty is that it contemplates the possibility of rejecting the nationality criterion for various positions and this, more than recognizing and repairing the contribution of various sectors of society , reveals even more the instrumentalization of the workers, and is totally xenophobic”.
ESK He has also criticized this same aspect and has asked the jeltzales and socialists “to defend the maxim that no one is redundant in Euskadi” and to eliminate the nationality requirement from the Public Employment Law and to replace it with that of residence, “allowing access to the Basque Public Employment in any field and under equal conditions for all citizens”.
Source: Eitb
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