The Government undertakes to review the replacement rate of the Administration’s workforce and to speed up competitive examinations and internal promotion

New meeting between the Government and union representatives of public employees. The Executive has committed this Tuesday to review the replacement rate of Administration templates (it does not rule out eliminating it progressively), as well as streamlining selection processes and promoting internal promotion and professional development of officials.

In its second meeting in just a week with CCOO, UGT and CSIF, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and The Public Service has focused the negotiation on matters related to employment. The talks started last week with the aim of achieving a new multi-year agreement on employment, wages and working conditions. The previous agreement ended in 2024 and had not been renewed, so public workers remain with their salaries frozen since the beginning of the year.

According to union sources, the ministry has shown itself willing to review the replacement rate and progressively replace it with an alternative planning mechanism based on objective criteria and personnel forecasts. From the majority union, CSIF, they consider that the proposal is still “insufficient” and that only by completely eliminating the replacement rate would the abuse of temporality be put to an end. CCOO and UGT also ask to end this rate.

As they did last Wednesday, November 5, the unions have met with the General Secretary of Public Function, Consuelo Sánchez, who has decided to incorporate some of their proposals into the future text of the agreement. This point includes both the streamlining and improving selection processessuch as the promotion of internal promotion and professional development, personnel planning, attention to citizens and public services, equality and non-discrimination.

From CSIF they consider that the selection processes should not last longer than one year and are committed to negotiating “a shock plan” that allows the staff to be resized and thus be able to provide a “quality” public service to citizens in the different public administrations.