The agreement to improve the working conditions of the Generalitat Firefighters is already a reality, and their participation has been record-breaking. 88.5% of workers have participated in the vote, of which 66.8% have decided to sign the agreement (1,289 people).
The consensus has arrived after months of negotiation between the social part and the Department of the Interior, avoiding a previous situation of conflict and mobilizations, a trend that until now was the usual one.
UGT, CCOO, IAC-CATAC, Intersindical and CSIF have been the five Firefighters unions that have signed up to improve the conditions of the body. It should be remembered that the last agreement, corresponding to the year 2019, was opposed by one of the unions.
The agreements establish a battery of measures to reduce gender inequalities in the force and facilitate the reconciliation of firefighters and firefighters. Among the gender policies, the extension of maternity and paternity or adoption leave to single-parent families stands out; adaptation of the job due to pregnancy or lactation; greater time flexibility for work-life balance reasons until the children reach 14 years of age and recoverable hours for women who have endometriosis or painful menstruation that temporarily disables their productivity.
The agreement also contemplates measures to reconcile personal and family life, making the management of scheduling and working hours more flexible. In this sense, a Professional Career Plan of the body will be applied; a comprehensive system of Occupational Risk Prevention will be implemented; An overlapping complement will be created to compensate the time between the end of one shift with another and a recognition of the personnel as night workers will be compensated.
In order to reach the number of 3,300 members of the Fire Department in 2026 and 3,600 in 2030, the current rate of annual calls for 250 professionals will continue. In addition, calls for the professional categories of corporal, sergeant, officer and sub-inspector will be published every 2 years until the number that guarantees current needs stabilizes.
