The Government has started negotiations with the most representative unions in the officials to approve the public offer of employment (OPE) for the year 2023. With the intention of taking it to the Minister council next Tuesday, July 11, according to different sources consulted and recognized by the Executive. Although sources consulted agree that the possibility of closing a multi-year agreement is on the table, which closes the calls for places until 2025.
The OPE itself is usually approved during the month of May, although the municipal elections and then the immediate electoral advance disrupted the calendar. Finally, the Government will give the green light to one of the most massive public job offers in recent years, two weeks before the elections.
Last year for the general administration of the State a total of 29,578 positions were taken and the widespread feeling among the centrals is that in this exercise the figure will be, at least, even. If security forces and bodies and the stabilization processes are added, the offer reached 44,787 jobs.
This past Thursday the representatives of the Treasury and Public Function held a first contact with csif, CCOO and UGTAnother meeting is scheduled for this Friday to finish off the negotiations next Monday.
The unions will push for the offer to be ambitious, with the intention of recovering the negative balance of public employment that is dragging on from the past decade of cuts. According to Csif estimates, the General State Administration has lost more than 54,000 jobs since 2010. Added to this is the threat that in the next 10 years will retire 60% of the workforce, which will require replacements to avoid losing troops.
CCOO sources consulted explain that their approach will be to close a multi-year agreement, probably at three years. With the intention of anticipating foreseeable retirements, being able to generate more places now in charge of the future restocking fees. Which, if the Government were to pick up the gauntlet, would generate a very high number of places this year, under the commitment to reconvene those places that were left uncovered when they were taken out.
During the last months the Government and its different ministries have been reaching agreements with the plants to gradually reinforce different services or departments. Agreements that deactivated strikes, such as those of Social Security or the administration of Justice.
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2023 is being the year of oppositions, marked by the macro stabilization processes that all administrations are carrying out to try to reduce the eventuality among their ranks to a figure close to 8%. According to the INE, currently temporary employment in the public sector doubles that in the private sector and is above 30%. That is why European justice has repeatedly censured the Kingdom of Spain for abusing the figure of the interim and that the Government chose to activate these macro stabilization processes.
In this line, this year’s OPE is expected by the unions to be ambitious, in the sense that it includes a large item for ordinary stabilization.