The Government has proposed a public employment offer (OEP) for 2023 of more than 30,000 seats for the General State Administration (AGE), 20% more than last year, according to union sources. Civil Service and unions have met this Monday and have agreed to the immediate processing of the royal decree approving the public employment offer for 2023, including both the provision of free shift access places and internal promotion.
According to union sources, CSIF and UGT have signed the agreement with the Government, while the CCOO has refused to sign it for lack of specific figures and because the document presented by the Executive “does not guarantee public service to citizens.”
Among the points of the agreement, the 20% increase in the positions offered for the General State Administration (AGE) compared to 2022 stands out. Last year, the offer was 24,600 positions -12,339 free entry and 9,261 internal promotion -, with which this year it would be around 30,000 places.
The agreement also includes the call for some 2,000 places of urgent coverage of the Administrative Body of the Social Security Administration for the maintenance of an adequate provision of public services, authorized for their performance by interim civil servants at the end of 2022, until their inclusion in the first public employment offer in which their coverage with career civil servants is possible.
As detailed by the UGT, the 2023 public employment offer must allocate at least 30% of the places offered for the free shift to internal promotion.