Tomorrow, the Government of Catalonia will announce the stabilisation process to reduce the temporary employment rate in the public administration to below 8%, in compliance with Law 20/2021. Thus, as of Monday, everyone who wants to apply for any of the positions that will be offered for the general services of the Autonomous Community will be able to register for the process electronically through the Electronic Headquarters and the Portal del Opositor, whether they want to opt for the competition or the competitive examination.

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The councillor for the Presidency, Civil Service and Equality, Mercedes Garrido, and the director general of Civil Service, Carmen Palomino, explained that there are four calls for applications that will be published tomorrow, Saturday, in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands, which means that citizens will have 20 working days from Monday to register for the process.

Specifically, 555 civil servants and 181 employees will be offered positions. It should be remembered that it is foreseen that positions occupied by interim staff before 31 December 2020 and positions occupied by temporary staff before 1 January 2016 will be put out to competitive examinations and extraordinary merit-based examinations.

In this way, 225 civil servant posts will be open to competitive examinations and 330 to merit-based examinations, while 24 posts will be open to competitive examinations and 157 to merit-based examinations. All are positioned in the general services of the Autonomous Community since Health and Education are governed by their own regulations.

Registration, as of Monday, will be exclusively online, through the website of the Balearic School of Public Administration. Even so, people who need help with the application process or who do not have an Internet connection will have an advisory service available at the EBAP offices in Mallorca, Menorca and Eivissa (from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Mallorca and from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm in Eivissa and Menorca). Appointments can also be made by appointment.

The councillor has appealed to anyone who wants to apply and take advantage of this opportunity to become part of the public administration. “We were the first community to approve the rules for the stabilisation process and, with this call for applications, we are one of the first to set it in motion. In fact, the deadline stipulates that this process to reduce temporary employment must be called before 31 December, which means that we are three and a half months ahead of the deadline”, Garrido defended.

Garrido stressed that “the aim of this whole process is to strengthen the regional administration, to give more stability to public workers and thus improve the public services we offer to the public, with a more agile, modern and efficient administration”.

As for the competitive examination, there is a competition phase, which counts for 40%, and a competitive examination phase, which counts for 60%. In the competition phase, professional merits count for up to 32 points and others for up to 8 points. Also taken into account will be the successful completion of exercises in previous calls for access to the same corps, ladder or speciality, academic training, knowledge of the Catalan language in excess of that required for access, training courses given or received, and recognised three-year periods of service.

The competitive examination will be worth up to 60 points and will consist of a multiple-choice test of knowledge relating only to the general part and to the functions of administrative activity. The test will be based on a database of questions that will be published beforehand.

Secondly, there is the extraordinary merit-based competition, which has a single competition phase in which the following merits are assessed:

Professional merits: up to 45 points (45 %).
Other merits: up to 55 points (55 %).
These other merits will be the successful completion of exercises in previous calls for access to the same corps, ladder or speciality, academic training, knowledge of the Catalan language in excess of that required for access, training courses are given or received, and recognised three-year periods of service.
All of this is part of the largest process of reducing temporary employment undertaken by the Government, with a total of almost 10,000 vacancies that will reduce temporary employment in the public administration.

“Once the whole process has been completed, we aim to reduce temporary employment to 0% in the general services, to less than 8% in Education and below 5% in Health. These are ambitious goals, but realistic and possible, with which the Balearic Islands will go beyond the limits set by the State”, concluded the Director General of Public Administration, Carme Palomino.