On 18 September, the inter-ministerial working group on the follow-up to the Council of Ministers agreement of 30 November 2018 updated the medical causes of exclusion in access to public employment.

The working group was chaired by the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy and Civil Service, Francisco Hernández Spínola, and also attended the Deputy Secretaries of Presidency, Health, Finance, Interior and Defence, as well as the Secretary-General for Civil Service, Javier Rueda, and the Director-General for Civil Service, Isabel Borrel.

The agreement of the Council of Ministers of 30 November 2018, updating the medical causes of exclusion in access to public employment, aims to eliminate the generic exclusions of the selective processes of potential applicants with diseases that do not impede the normal development of the tasks entrusted to public employment.

This removes the barriers to access to certain civil servants: Customs Surveillance, Penitentiary Institutions, State Security Forces and Corps and Armed Forces.

The agreement involves the elimination of HIV, diabetes, celiac disease and psoriasis from the generic causes of medical exclusions required for access to public employment in all calls published after the date of adoption and, in any case, from those arising from the 2020 Public Employment Offer.

The representatives of the various ministerial departments present in the Working Group have confirmed the positive assessment of the implementation of the agreement so far and have successfully addressed the procedure and deadlines to be followed in order to undertake the revisions to the remaining calls.

From now on, the technical work begins, which, under medical and scientific criteria, will review the catalogs of exclusions so that the mere diagnosis of a disease will not be a generic cause of exclusion, but will also have to take into account the medical advances and scientific evidence and the clinical situation of each patient.

It is a decisive step towards the integration of people with non-handicapped diseases into public employment.