Action on 20 January over precarious employment

The public service federation, Frente Comum, has submitted a proposal to the government to reduce the level of temporary employment in the public sector. The federation argues that a proper process of recruitment should take place to enable temporary workers to apply for permanent jobs. The unions argue that in many cases employees on fixed-term contracts are doing jobs that are required on a permanent basis and so it is a matter of fairness that they have the chance to get a permanent contract. The federation also emphasises that this would be an important measure in the current climate with

The two main public service federations – FSC-CCOO and FesP-UGT – recently met with the public services minister to underline their concerns about precarious employment and urge action to implement existing agreements to curb the use of temporary contracts. The unions raised issues around staffing levels and the ageing public sector workforce but stressed that job insecurity was a major problem and that the proportion of workers on temporary contracts was still too high and had worsened in the response to the pandemic. The federations also called for action to remove any discrimination in the