The regulation, which will regulate the activity of more than 100,000 people working in Basque public services, opens the door to non-EU workers, except in three sectors, including healthcare. All unions have been against the law.
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The Basque Parliament approves this Thursday the Public employment law, which organizes and regulates the activities of more than 100,000 employees working in the public services 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, which was approved by the government council more than a year ago, aims to “modernize and harmonize” the public function, as well as updating the public function law that has now been in force for 32 years.
As planned, the regulation will continue with votes in favor of the partners of the Basque government (PNV and PSE-EE) and the abstinence from PP+Cswho agreed to create the scale of jobs in correctional institutions, which will make it easier for these positions to go to public competition.
Between the news, opens the door for extra-community workers (from outside the EU) to become government employees, although three exceptions are identified: health, communications and technology. In addition, it establishes different modalities so that civil servants can evolve within the administration and considers the figure of professional public management so that, through a public procedure and with an assessment of merits, management-level appointments can be made.
It also includes principles of gender equality, with measures such as the possibility to change jobs to another location in case of sexist violence, as well as language equality with “a Basque-speaking administration that performs its duties in the same way as it does in Spanish”. This also includes the call for independent selection processes for people with an intellectual disability.
The trade unions, against
All trade unions with representation in the civil service have criticized the law being promoted by the Basque government. LAB will focus on foreign countries of the Chamber under the slogan “This Basque public labor law does not belong to the workers”.
According to DE 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 immediately rejected by all the trade unions”, he criticized, denouncing that this project of the Basque government ” subjugates workers, but also public services, private interests and a commitment to perpetuate temporary employment, privatisation, job destruction and austerity, the main problems of the Basque public sector”.
LABORATORYwho has described the standard as “neoliberal and subservient”, assures that “the only novelty is that it considers the possibility of rejecting the nationality criterion for different positions and this, more than recognizing and restoring the contribution of different sectors of society , reveals even more the instrumentalization of the workers, and is totally xenophobic”.
ESK He has also criticized this same aspect, asking the jeltzales and socialists to “defend the maxim that no one is superfluous in Euskadi” and to remove the nationality requirement from the public labor law and replace it with that of residence, “grant access to the Basque public employment in every field and on equal terms for all citizens”.
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Source: EITB
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