The Council of Ministers has approved today the royal decree for the Public Employment Offer (OEP) corresponding to the year 2023, which includes the largest number of places offered to work in the State Administration in history. After hiding the figure until the last moment after an agreement with the unions, the offer amounts to 39,574 places15.8% more than in 2022, with which staff will be reinforced in different departments of the General State Administration (AGE), the Administration of Justice, the National Police Corps, the Civil Guard and the Armed Forces.
This offer follows an agreement with two of the three unions –UGT and Csif– more representative in public service. The minister’s negotiators Maria Jesus Montero They have been transferring to the central offices the information on the new offer of public employment in drops. To the point that the most representative unions among civil servants -Csif, CCOO and UGT- did not have the day before, that is, Monday, yet official confirmation of the exact figure that the Government was going to approve. This has been the reason why the CCOO has decided not to sign the agreement for the OEP. “It does not guarantee public service to the citizenry,” say sources from this union.
Law negotiating meetings were closed yesterday. Last year for the AGE a total of 25,471 places were taken, of which 15,880 will be new entry places and 9,591 for internal promotion. The calls for the stabilization of personnel – last year there were 4,107 positions – are expected to come out in an independent royal decree.
The Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montgero, has highlighted that “the record figure is established by the objective need to strengthen a workforce that has been weakened by years of cuts and zero replacement rates.” It should be remembered that last year a total of 44,787 positions were approved, of which 34,151 positions corresponded to the ordinary offer and another 10,636 to the offer to stabilize interim personnel.
With the aim of expediting the deadlines, the Executive has included in the regulations the obligation for the calls to be published before December 31, 2023. “In these remaining months each and every one of the governing bodies must have their offers called of employment”, assured the minister, after pointing out that the processes must be completed within two years.
Of the total number of jobs in 2023, some 29,818 jobs correspond to the General State Administration and of these, 19,900 are newly admitted. For the Administration of Justice, 1,907 places will be allocated, of which 1,215 are new entrants.
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For the National Police Corps, 2,833 positions are opened, of which 2,600 are new entries, while for the Civil Guard 2,875 positions are enabled, 2,520 new entries.
Also included are 1,025 positions that correspond to Social Security to manage the minimum vital income, 500 positions in the scale of civil servants with national qualifications who mainly carry out their work in the local administration, and another 2,500 more positions for managing entities of the Social Security that facilitate face-to-face care and assistance to citizens.