Trade unions sharply criticize the draft law on the public function of the general state administration, which was approved in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday
Trade unions on the warpath against the draft law on the public function of the general state administration, approved by the Council of Ministers this Tuesday. The text, which is still open to changes in the parliamentary process, includes the possibility that civil servants will be moved from the competitive position if they fail the performance review they will now have to go through.
Specifically, a negative result would lead to “failure to assess the merit of experience” during the selection processes in which they participate. In the standard, the government does not specify what this performance assessment will be, against which the behavior and results of civil servants are measured annually. However, it does state that it will be mandatory and that it will affect both career evolution and the perception of certain wage supplements.
The unions sharply criticized the text on Wednesday, saying it “opens the door to remove anyone who has obtained a position through competition on the basis of that evaluation”. In a press conference, both the UGT and the CCOO described this fact as “very serious”, considering the evaluation “as something irrefutable that leaves the person in an administrative procedure no defense against a negative evaluation”,
From the government, they defend that the integration of this evaluation into the standard aims to improve productivity and the suitability of the professional career for the fulfillment of the functions of the employee or government official. They also confirm that this performance evaluation will influence possible promotions, which will also take into account the professional trajectory.
The text also includes the introduction of two new salary supplements for civil servants. Again, they are based on performance evaluation, in addition to the professional one.
The first of these is the career plugin. This will reward the progress made in the professional career. The amount is the same for all civil servants of the same (sub)group of occupational class who have recognized it. The other is the performance plugin. Access to it is linked to passing the performance assessments established during the professional career. The achievements and achievements of employees in the public sphere.
In this way, the additional allowances would be the destination allowance, the specific allowance, the performance allowance and the career allowance.
To this must be added the well-known supplement for extraordinary services, which is the supplement that rewards services performed outside the normal working day or extraordinary activity in the workplace.
Source: La Verdad
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