Some 600 senior technicians from Andalusia belonging to the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) who have the category of temporary statutory personnel will present this Tuesday a collective complaint to the Andalusian Ombudsman’s Office concerning the “systematic irregularities” which, in their opinion. , comes the autonomous administration both in the call and in the appointment of laboratory personnel, radiodiagnosis, dietetics and nutrition, pathological anatomy, nuclear medicine, etc.
Sources from the Gestea legal cooperative, which advises the health community, consider that the regulations that govern the procedure are “consciously and systematically violated, causing continued precariousness of the aforementioned sector and harming the interests and services of public health”. Andalusian citizens and, at the same time, “perpetuate the precarious employment of thousands of technicians”.
They mainly demand “dignity in their working conditions” and that the SAS “respect and comply with the regulations in force” regarding the award of public health contracts, namely the fundamental statute of the public official, the Framework Statute statutory health personnel. services and the Health Sector Roundtable Compact. According to what they want to denounce, there is a “continuous and flagrant illegality” which “is part of the Andalusian government’s trend towards the progressive dismantling of public health services”.
“Opacity” in the method
These “labor violations,” according to the group, “have been normalized and institutionalized, without resolving the multiple complaints and claims filed” directly by statutory staff, “institutionalizing systemic fraud in contracting, using temporary contracts or replacement without valid reason. staff working or having provided services without affiliation to Social Security and without a contract, commitments being canceled after starting the provision of services, without payment of salary compensation or overtime.
According to the summary, “the absolute opacity of the Administration as to the method or system used to make calls for temporary workers from the SAS pool, within the team selection system, to the situation or status of the development of the single list of statutory temporary staff”, which continues not to be updated, despite the administration’s obligation to renew it annually, the type of percentage approved annually for reservations of places for internal promotion in hiring short-term or temporary and all this although it has been requested on several occasions, it represents a systemic failure of the principles of transparency and participation imposed by current legislation, abandoning statutory personnel to a situation of legal insecurity and categorical helplessness.
The complaint before the Ombudsman will not be the only measure against these “irregularities” since a complaint is also planned before the Andalusian Office against Fraud and Corruption, the request for the preparation of obligatory reports by the Central Control Commission and monitoring of the Health Sector Roundtable Pact, the request for information due to the Transparency Council and the formulation of legal actions against the health administration, they announce.
Updated new categories
Last Thursday, the Andalusian Health Service (SAS) announced, through the Europa Press press agency, that it had updated eleven new categories in the employment pool, all nurses. The SAS stressed that it “respects its commitment” according to which, between October and November, the provisional lists of the different specialties of specialist doctors in the region will be published, family medicine, pediatrics, nursing, physiotherapy and technical specialists, among others .
The SAS also indicated that for the rest, since it already has the possibility of “incremental” rankings, it hopes that they can be published in the second half of November, month in which the final lists will also be published.
