The Congress of Deputies approved the Draft Law on Urgent Measures for the Reduction of Time in Public Employment, which will henceforth continue its proceedings in the Senate. The rule comes from Royal Decree-Law 14/2021, of July 6, approved by the Council of Ministers and validated at the Congress of Deputies on July 21, the date from which it is processed as a Bill by the urgency procedure.
The text, in turn, comes from a negotiated and endorsed agreement in the General Negotiating Table with the trade unions CC OO, UGT and CSIF and from the debate within the Sectoral Conference on Public Administration, as well as from meetings of the Coordinating Committee on Public Employment, between the Autonomous Communities and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Femp.
The rule complies with one of the reforms contained in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, as well as the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Supreme Court. The government's commitment when it started this whole process to comply with Brussels and judicial decisions is to reduce the temporality of all administrations to below 8%.
Under the Bill that was approved this Thursday in the Congress of Deputies and which lacks the approval of the Upper House, the Public Administrations will have to offer, before June 1, 2022, the temporary positions that are currently occupied. Selective processes must be completed by 31 December 2024. Access to these places will be made through a competition process. The evaluation of the tender phase will be 40% and experience will be the determining factor.
In addition, the rule provides that exercises in the opposition phase may be regarded as non-eliminatory. Administrations may adapt the agenda and type of tests to the stabilisation process specific to each area. In addition, by way of exception, the Public Administrations will convene by the competition system places that would have been occupied on a temporary basis uninterruptedly before 1 January 2016. In this way, this extraordinary stabilisation process affects structural places that have been in permanent employment for at least five years, as well as those occupied by interim employees who have been employed in the administration for more than five years.