2023-12-19 21:00:55
Updated Tuesday, December 19, 2023 – 20:00
The Treasury assures that the evaluations will not imply the loss of official status
The Minister of the Presidency, Flix Bolaos.EFE
In the Council of Ministers this Tuesday, the Government approved several aspects that were included in the Public Function Law that the Executive negotiated without carrying out with the unions the last legislature, among which the evaluation of the performance of public employees is included.
This has been announced by the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Flix Bolaosin the press conference after the Council of Ministers, where he indicated that the objective of the measures is to “modernize the public Administration.”
Some of the approved measures, Bolaos indicated, derive from the Basic Statute of Public Employees, approved in 2006. “The evaluation of the performance of all public employees and officials is reinforced,” the minister stated, which will serve to assess their behavior, performance and achievement of objectives.
Likewise, the horizontal professional career is introduced, which allows progress in sections from the same position in the company or public administration, and the figures of public managers are also regulated.
The head of Justice has also advanced a “strategic human resources planning” in the field of public employment with the professionalization of the courts, a “more agile” selection model and the transformation of the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP) into an “agency.”
“Positive” evaluations
As reported by the Treasury through a statement, the new performance evaluations are presented “positively”, that is, since they pursue “an improvement in productivity that results in better provision of public service.”
“In no case will they imply the loss of the status of official for those who do not pass them,” the Treasury assures, because if they do not pass this evaluation “training measures will be promoted to provide them with tools that allow them to perform better.”
This operation of the evaluation of public employees responds to what was agreed with the CCOO and UGT unions during the negotiation of the draft law presented in Congress and which fell due to the early elections.
“A new complement is not created,” Javier Martínez, from CCOO in the General Administration of the State (AGE), assured EFE, explaining that it will function like productivity, a supplement that is already charged, but not throughout the administration.
“It is not that we are going to increase the remuneration, but rather the way of receiving it,” CCOO has detailed, although they add that the reform will serve to ensure that this remuneration supplement reaches groups that until now do not receive it.
“Surprise” among the unions
“They have not given us information in this regard,” the CCOO union member in the AGE told EFE, and although he indicates that they have taken into account several of the provisions agreed upon with the unions in the previous legislature, today’s approval through a royal decree has caught them by “surprise”
According to Martínez, the Government had suggested to the plants that it would be approved through a bill and now they are questioning whether they will be able to introduce modifications to the decree approved by the Executive.
In this sense, CCOO criticizes a “excessive” tightening of the disciplinary regime against which the unions had already expressed themselves. This disciplinary regime, which already existed before, does contemplate the possible loss of civil servant status.
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