The Basque Government proposes to extend teleworking to the entire public sector

The Basque Government has presented to the public service unions a draft of the decree that, for the first time, opens the possibility of regulate and define telework as a work modality.

This matter has been one of the matters dealt with in the General Board of the public administration of the Basque Autonomous Community in which the unions have shown their opposition to limiting the salary increase to 2%, foreseen in the budget project.

As reported by the Executive of PNV and PSE-EE, the proposal proposes to extend in a general way this modality of provision of services to public sector personnel outside of the administration dependencies, with “pre-established” criteria and when the needs of the service “allow”.

This possibility already exists in the sectorial scope of the Administration of the Basque Government.

The Deputy Minister of Public Function, José María Armentia, has transferred the draft to the union representatives so that they can make contributions and that close a final document in future meetings.

The Government has also informed the unions about the actions that will be carried out for the reduction of temporality and the improvement of the quality of public employment, but has clarified that it is necessary to clarify the new regulatory framework in this matter, with the approval of the new basic and Basque regulations that will regulate it.

With him 2% public sector wage increase by 2022, the Basque Government has put forward a proposal on the partial retirement plan linked to the replacement contracts for permanent workforce for next year.

The unions consider the 2% rise to be insufficient and denounce the temporary nature

After the meeting, IS IT OVER THERE it has rejected the 2% salary increase because it represents an “impoverishment of public personnel” of 15% in the last decade.

After regretting that the Government has “limited” the negotiation around teleworking to the content of the draft decree, ELA has demanded that the mechanisms be articulated to put an end to the “abuse of temporary employment” and that partial retirement is not limit permanent staff.

He announced that they will continue to promote the necessary mobilizations, including the strike, until the real consolidation of the 55,000 workers who “suffer the scourge of temporary employment, the recovery of lost purchasing power and reverse the loss of labor rights suffered in recent years” .

LAB has announced that it will not allow the 2% salary increase, which would increase the “loss of purchasing power” of public employees.

This central has announced that it will make its contributions to the draft decree on teleworking, but has warned that it will not accept that it is directed exclusively to women and that the expenses that this modality may cause to workers will have to be taken into account.

He has considered “not very specific and ambitious” the proposal for the consolidation of jobs and has asked that the one referring to partial retirement “be applicable to all working personnel and that the substitutes become permanent.”

CCOO de Euskadi has labeled the 2% salary increase “clearly insufficient” and has denounced that the Basque Government brings to the General Table a rise already announced by its spokespersons to the press previously, which, in its opinion, “demonstrates the little negotiating will of the Executive “.

For this union, today’s General Board “is late, especially as regards the agreement against temporality.”

UGT It has also demanded increases of more than 2% and that the Basque Executive pressure the Spanish to eliminate the replacement rate and consolidate temporary staff.

This union has opted for telework to be established as one more “ordinary and generalized type of work in all Basque administrations”, which is why it considers it necessary to introduce a digital culture and modernize work environments.