Spanish Radio and Television (RTVE) has decided to postpone opposition to permanent staff of the public entity in the category of informant provided for this Sunday by “reasons of force majeure” and will communicate “in the coming days” the new appointment of the test to the 5,028 registered for this exam who aspired to 474 places.
In a press release, RTVE apologized for the postponement which, according to the USO union, is due to “a”leaked questions of the examination of the information and content, which led all the unions to suspend the opposition procedure. The USO assures that the decision to postpone the exam “is necessary to ensure transparency and equal opportunities in a process which already poses many problems.
“We deeply regret the inconvenience this causes to candidates.”who have experienced unnecessary stress as a result of managing this process. We share your frustration and remain determined to defend your rights,” adds the union press release. The union entity shows its support for RTVE’s decision to file a complaint with the police to “clarify the facts and demand accountability.”
“We are working to ensure that this situation does not happen again and to ensure a fair process for all,” the USO statement concluded. RTVE has not explained the reasons at the moment of the suspension of the test which It would take place at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the Complutense University of Madrid.
They found out last night
“For reasons of force majeure The information and content exam scheduled for today is postponed and the new invitation to the exam will be announced in the coming days. Sorry for the inconvenience caused,” we read in the brief press release from the public establishment. For the RTVE exams scheduled for this Sunday, 21,030 people registered in order to access one of the 1,500 places offered.
A member of the court belonging to the RTVE News department, it is the one who learned last night that a leak could have occurred, sources from the UGT of the public entity told Efe. Given the alert, members of the court They met at 6:00 a.m. hours to analyze the incident and the human resources management of RTVE and the unions were informed, who determined that the most appropriate thing to do given the suspicion that the exam questions exceeded the exam was to suspend, according to these sources. CCOO encrypted in a 83% of exam questions filtered.
The category where the largest number of candidates registered was Information and Content, which was postponed, followed by Production Assistance, with 1,953 registered. Next come the categories of graphic information and image and sound capture (1,746), production assistant (1,630); (1,513) and His (1,128).
“Indignation” at the TVE Information Council
The TVE News Council expressed its “the deepest indignation” for the suspension of the examination and hoped that the matter “would be investigated and responsibilities determined”. “We regret the inconvenience this has caused to all opponents,” adds the message from this body in X.
The members of the board of directors became in contact with the interim president of RTVE, Concepción Cascajosa, to express his dissatisfaction with the evolution of the opposition process and remind him that “I warned him this could happen“, sources from this organization explained to Efe.
Cascajosa pointed out to them that the incidence will be reported in order to investigate and clarify the alleged irregularity. On August 7, a complaint was filed by a union with the police following a failure in the storage of data of opponents of different categories. Oppositions called by the public entity They already suffered a setback in October last year when they were suspended in October 2023 after the judgment of the National Court in which it declared the nullity of some of the conditions for participating in the competitions, such as having the minimum demonstrable professional experience in the position for which one applied.
The court’s decision follows the lawsuit filed by the Entertainment, Information, Paper and Graphic Arts Federation of the General Confederation of Workers against the public entity. In April this year, RTVE republished the opposition regulations on April 22 this year, once adapted to the resolution of the National Court, and A month later, the application period closed..
