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The Government of the Principality will contract civil and property liability insurance this year for all its staff, a procedure that was left blank last year after the competition for its hiring in 2022 was void. Sources from the regional Executive assured that “it appears in the Budget the provision to formalize it again” and that its tender will be held soon.

The absence of this insurance triggered a union complaint, despite the fact that the Executive has maintained that, in any case, the administration will be responsible for any compensation. The Minister of Education, Lydia Espina, assured that in 2022, with the insurance in force, 39 claims were presented, all of them dismissed, although four appeals were pending. At most the amount to be disbursed would be 38,500 euros; In 2023, without insurance in force, claims would amount to 3,000 euros.

The Popular Party yesterday joined the criticism by considering the absence of this insurance to be “unacceptable negligence.” In September 2022, when starting the file to contract a new civil and property liability insurance for all its staff, the Principality justified the relevance and need of the contract by arguing that the Administration “does not have the material or personal means to carry out carry out a service such as the one that is intended to be contracted”. That contest was void and the Principality renounced the insurance. Following the complaint from the CSIF union, the Minister of Education, Lydia Espina, tried to reassure the workers by assuring that the Executive has made up for the absence of the policy at this time by “directly assuming the payment of the compensation corresponding to the files of patrimonial responsibility”. That situation will change this year, according to Government sources, because the insurance will be contracted.

The apparent contradiction between the two statements yesterday led Jorge Caro, CSIF education delegate, to ask himself, “if there really is no problem for workers’ coverage, why was insurance provided in previous years? Has that need they were talking about suddenly been extinguished?”

Caro appeared at the Meeting with PP deputies José Agustín Cuervas-Mons and Gloria García, who expressed their surprise at the “unacceptable negligence” of the Government and “the risk generated” not only in educational centers, given that the absence of insurance It affects the entire administration except the Principality’s Health Service. Cuevas-Mons added to the request already made for the appearance at the Board of the Minister of Education that of the vice president of the Principality, Gimena Llamedo, in her capacity as head of the competent ministry in public office. The deputy says he discovered “with a certain dread” the file that confirms that the last insurance contracted expired in May 2022 and assumes that the subsequent withdrawal, as no insurer entered the competition to renew it, has no other explanation than the money, or the price proposed by the Government, which “was not correct”.

The communication that the Ministry of Education sent to schools on Wednesday does not reassure Jorge Caro. Quite the contrary. The union representative recalls that the Principality itself assumed in the hiring file that the agreement of its workforce requires it to have insurance of this type and when it comes to daily practice it again asks itself questions that lead to the certainty that the decision to desist leaves the staff “in a defenseless situation.” “In schools there is a lot of unrest and concern,” he says, warning against the possibility that a student’s accident could lead to “civil or criminal claims” in which “it is very likely that teachers will have to support them with their assets.” .

Also the Podemos deputy, Covadonga Tomé, yesterday urged the Ministry of Education to “clearly and transparently clarify insurance coverage.”

2024-01-26 03:06:24
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