2024-02-16 04:00:00
Celebration of the MIR exams, at the Faculty of Education of the Complutense University of Madrid, on January 29, 2022, in Madrid.
The Community of Madrid, like the rest of Spain, has the obligation until the end of 2024 to reduce temporary employment rates among public sector workers. The mandate from Europe is clear and sets a deadline of December 31, 2024. With this prevailing priority, Madrid’s public health system must reduce the rate of temporary workers to 8% and stabilize many doctors, nurses and health workers who, Despite having been workers of the Madrid Health Service (SERMAS) for decades, they still do not have a permanent contract.
To speed up the procedures, in an extraordinary way, the classic competitive examinations (OPEs) have been completed with merit-based competitions, avoiding the traditional exam so that health system workers can stabilize and obtain permanent contracts. At the beginning of the legislature, Fátima Matute’s own Ministry of Health had in its plans the stabilization of 44,000 workers. However, the implementation of this plan is somewhat more complicated.
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The plan is negotiated with unions, but has reached a hurdle that does not convince workers’ representatives. The Community of Madrid has decided that some places will be awarded through a merit-based competition and others through competitive examination. The decision, sources from the Ministry of Health point out, is due to legal criteria, although they have not provided Infobae with more data or explanations that delve into why the reports consider that some health workers can opt for a contest of merit and others must do so through opposition.
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“They notified us of a merit contest for all categories and we understood that it was necessary. If you do not reduce the temporality set by Europe, you put European funds in danger, but in this way you create inequality, contempt and mistreatment of some health workers compared to others,” the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) explain to Infobae.
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The Ministry of Health assures this medium that the scale for OPEs 22-23 by merit contest, for doctors and specialist nurses, “all unions, except AMYTS, showed their disagreement” that “it is only for specialist doctors and nurses, ignoring that there are legal reports that support the decision made by the ministry,” explain the sources consulted.
In total, there are regarding 7,000 pending positions corresponding to the required stabilization and of these, only regarding 2,000 will be through a merit-based competition, those related to specialized nursing and specialized physicians. The rest of the health workers will have to go to the opposition. “We requested these legal reports and they have not yet given them to us. We want to know what it is based on in reference to the Framework Statute. They belittle and mistreat other professionals and generate a lack of equality. If there is speed to reduce the temporality, the situation must arise that the merit contest is for all categories,” argues the CCOO union.
SATSE has also shown itself along these lines: “We want all workers to have the same treatment. If it is decided that through a contest, fine. If it is opposition, too. What bothers us the most is that they make a distinction for one type of personnel. That distinction bothers us a little,” explained consulted sources. After the union’s insistence, they say, they managed to ensure that specialized nurses also avoided opposition and were able to access employment through a merit-based competition.
If the process of stabilizing positions is not achieved on the required dates, the Community of Madrid would jeopardize the receipt of European funds, hence the haste with which these processes are carried out, which end the temporary nature of many positions. of work.
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