Five, ten, fifteen and even more than 20 years working for the Administration but no fixed contract. Shortly before the pandemic, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) determined that these workers they suffered abuse of temporality and that they should be made fixed.
Juan Sarrate -interim since 2000, now in Development-, Nieves Gudo -since 2004 in brigades- and Reyes Villacampa -17 years of ordinance at Colegio El Parque- are three City Council employees in this situation and point out that temporality, which the Consistory estimates around 25%, is closer to 30% by excluding vacancies from these calculations and in some services, such as social services or brigades, two-thirds or more is shot.
Beyond legal discussions, this temporality that they insist that is abusive, has serious effects on your life: from delaying having a family waiting to stabilize to not being able to sign a mortgage –“They ask for a fixed contract and we don’t have one”– going through not being able to promote despite having been working for years, resigning from other jobs waiting for a stabilization that has not arrived or, the most feared now, being on the street with 12 days of compensation per year instead of the usual 20.
Villacampa, Gudo and Sarrate illustrate this situation and criticize above all that in all these years (17 the least) they have not had “any kind of opportunity” to consolidate. “If there are 3 years to run a public job offer, in 20 years there would have been seven opportunities, but I have not had one,” they point out by way of example, before stating that “We are treated like second-class workers, because we are not fixed nor can we promote and we get three-year terms in the courts, but we are necessary because if not, we would not be there after so long ”.
Pending lawsuits
After the European ruling, 80 employees of the Huesca City Council, interim and labor officials they have sued the institution and although a first judgment of the Contentious-Administrative matter gave the reason to the Consistory against a group of interim members -sentence appealed to the TSJA-, there are still many trials both in Litigation for interim and Social for labor, since “the demands are individual and (the judge) groups them if they are similar.”
Recently, there was a visit for six workers from the Tourism area and there are already dates for others in September and November, “and there are still to be signaled.” “Most likely, there will be trials until well into 2022 “, Sarrate points out.
All three consider that municipal workers in this situation they are “a solid group wanting to stop an injustice” and they recall that the interim have already achieved their right to triennia in court. “We will go where it is needed,” they say.
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