{"id":1,"date":"2019-10-31T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T17:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicworkers.capa8.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T13:03:15","slug":"los-interinos-sobran-al-estado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicworkers.net\/en\/2019\/10\/31\/los-interinos-sobran-al-estado\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim workers, an annoyance for Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Certainly, after 20 years of service, now <\/span>they are too many. One of the chronic problems of the Spanish Public Administration is the issue of interim workers. And, as usual, instead of remedies, our administration only offers patches. It is a problem with many facets and edges, some of which are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013 <em>Overrepresentation<\/em>: the percentage of <\/span>interim workers has always remained notoriously above the EU recommendations. For various reasons (without ruling out unpredictability and incompetence);<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2013\u00a0<em>Economic savings<\/em>\u00a0(interim teachers are <span class=\"s1\">cheaper than civil servants);<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2212 <em>Maintenance of client networks<\/em> (a high <\/span>number of interim workers guarantees to fill the seats of the huge and opaque service commissions and other leave) and<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2013\u00a0<em>Labor instability and dependence<\/em>\u00a0on <\/span>political fluctuations to which interim workers are subjected make them a more easily instrumentalizable group than that of the civil servants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In this sense, governments have been <\/span>playing for decades with the offer of vacancies (alternating good years with bad years), according to their particular electoral interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The unequal treatment to which interim <\/span>workers are subjected: under the idea of \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d and with the aim of maintaining the servitude of customers, the administration has classified interim workers according to stability pacts (for the so-called high quality interim workers) and \u201cpositive discriminations\u201d (for those with greater seniority), but interim workers at last, that is, the day they allocate their position, they go home with nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another obstacle is the amnestic <\/span>corporativism of many civil servants who, once they have reached their particular interests, forget those who now suffer from the situation they left behind. It is the historical amnesia of those who, from the beginning, do not care about the general interest and chose<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to attend exclusively to their particular matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Given this institutionalized irresponsibility, <\/span>almost all trade unions chose the (so Spanish) solution of \u201ccoffee for all\u201d, and negotiate with power the improvements and benefits at the expense of the weakest, even if they are a majority.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly, after 20 years of service, now they are too many. One of the chronic problems of the Spanish Public Administration is the issue of interim workers. 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