The organization of the official oppositions of the Generalitat, which had to be canceled in April due to lack of guarantees, will cost 900,000 euros to the public treasury, an expense that the Generalitat will attribute to the organizing company Cegos, from which it will also claim 1.2 million for patrimonial liability and another amount to be determined for reputational damage.
The temporary stabilization tests, which will be carried out on July 1 and 8, will mobilize a total of 1,700 people, of whom 337 are members of courts and 1,343 surveillance and support personnel, most of them public officials who have presented themselves voluntary way.
The tests of the opposition competition for stabilization of 1,825 places to which 13,534 opponents aspired, carried out by Cegos on April 29, collected more than 13,000 incidents of delays, disabled spaces, lack of guards and use of mobile devices.
The legal report commissioned by the Generalitat on May 11 determined the seriousness of these irregularities, leaving the results without effect and summoning the opponents again the first weekends of July. As a result of these incidents, the Government initiated a file to declare the patrimonial responsibility of the administration and indemnify 90 euros per person for the moral damages caused, which the opponents will begin to receive in September. The total compensation amounts to 1.2 million euros.
In addition to the expenses derived from the repetition of the tests and the compensation to the opponents (2.1 million euros), the Generalitat will demand compensation from Cegos for reputational damage for an amount that the legal services are assessing.
The Secretary of Administration and Public Function of the Generalitat, Alícia Corral, has assured this morning that the oppositions for the stabilization of interim administration of this and next Saturday will take place “with all security”. “Let the applicants be calm, that everything will be fine,” Corral said in a meeting with journalists.
On the first day of the tests, next Saturday, July 1, 3,648 people are summoned for 477 positions as rural agents, criminal enforcement, and transversal labor.
On Saturday, July 8, also at 9:30 a.m., the exams will begin for almost 10,000 applicants (9,886) for 1,344 positions in the civil service field: general technicians (jurists, economists), administrative and technical specialists (psychologists, engineers and veterinarians). .
The classrooms will be 50% occupied and the use of mobile phones will be prohibited.
These exams coincide with the extraordinary competitive competition in the education sector that calls for 14,238 places and in which 36,300 applicants are registered, and which is in charge of the Department of Education.
These oppositions, which are also part of the stabilization process for interim vacancies and which will be held during the month of July, are the largest in the history that the department has organized, by vacancies and number of opponents.
The forecast is that with this extraordinary opposition and the merit contest still open, plus an opposition at the end of the year, the proportion of interims will drop from 34% to less than 8%, which is the objective set by the European Commission in order to receive European funds.
The Secretary of Education, Patrícia Plaja, and the director of teaching staff, Dolors Collell, have explained that the budget for the organization of these oppositions has not yet been assessed, a figure that they will not have until after they are concluded. The complexity of the organization is greater than the oppositions to public servants since the professors are examined not only in theoretical tests but also have to defend the topic of their specialty. This process lasts the entire month of July (and could be extended to September for some FP specialties).
