The measure, which provides for accelerated advancement in public service from 2024, will apply to workers who have changed occupations in the last 18 years, but will not apply to individual state employment contracts, the unions said on Wednesday.
This is the proposal of the government, which returned this Wednesday to the negotiating table with trade unions in the presidential ministry in Lisbon.
The proposal provides a promotion for those who have six points in their performance appraisal (instead of ten) starting next year for civil servants with 18 years of service and who were covered by two career moratoriums between 2005 and 2007 and between 2011 and 2017.
Speaking to Lusa after meeting Secretary of State for Public Administration Inés Ramirez, Fesap trade union federation leader José Abrao said the government had changed the original offer to cover workers who changed jobs but left the state’s individual contracts.
“Regarding the accelerator, the government has introduced a new document that includes workers who have changed professions, for example, now extended to a technical assistant who graduated in recent years and became a senior technician,” Abraao said.
Union of Technical Staff (STE) President Helena Rodriguez expressed her satisfaction with the change, stressing that the proposal was supported by her union.
However, José Abraao stated that Fesap’s proposal to extend the accelerator to select government contracts, such as EPE (state-owned enterprise) hospital workers, “was not accepted.”
“The government continues to insist that this measure is only for civil servants who are subject to SIADAP. [sistema de avaliação de desempenho] or adapted by SIADAP, except for individual contracts,” Abraao said.
With regard to changes in IT careers, which were also discussed, trade union structures believe that the offer should be more attractive.
The government proposal provides for the creation of two special professions – an information systems and technology specialist and an information systems and technology specialist.