The union remarks that the requirement is the response to a “requirement” of ELA, and, furthermore, it does not give the option of taking a level accreditation test.
Euskadi Workers’ Commissions have resorted to the employment exchange to cover internships for local police officers, convened at the Arkaute academy, and has denounced the Basque Government for failing to comply with its own linguistic regulations and “yielding” to ELA by demanding as Participation requirement for level B2 of Basque.
In a statement, the Federation of Citizen Services of the CCOO of Euskadi emphasizes that with this new bag all possibility of new hires for current workers is closed, who in this new process cannot repeat the courses of the academy.
After ensuring that this conditioning “is already abusive“, CCOO remarks that the requirement for level B2 of Basque is the answer to a” requirement “of ELA, and, furthermore, it does not give the option of taking a proof of level.
“This approach by the Basque Government will leave hundreds of policemen in the street temporary premises, without any justification, because it does not attend to the linguistic reality of each place and does not attend to the diversity of cases, since many police officers know Basque but cannot prove it or have knowledge that is not recognized by the current system “, according to stated in the statement
CCOO has warned that it will respond to this “drift” of the Basque Government, which has yielded to “exclusionary pressures from ELA, and also from LAB”, and has stressed that these pressures are “contrary to the consensus for multilingual coexistence and the regulations in force in the Basque Government.”
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