Andalucía's highest court has prevented 2,000 employees, who worked for the public-owned customs warehouse DAP, from getting jobs at another public agency, Agapa.
This is a means for workers who have not passed any form of objective certification or testing to enter the public service. For this reason, there are murmurs of favoritism given many of them are family members or members of the same political parties and labor unions. Another 24,000 employees of disbanded public companies and committees are in the same situation as DAP. Thanks to new laws that were approved two years ago in order to restructure Andalucía's public sector, a secret entry was created for workers to get jobs in the public sector through agencies like Agapa. After a long legal battle (the courts did not apply their decisions based on the argument that they were not hard and fast) the permanent sentence from Andalucía's highest court has frozen integration protocols.
These situations paint a picture of how the public sector grew because government resisted cutting public companies. A year ago, the Deputy Prime Minister gave the regional governments an ultimatum, forcing them to cut the more than 400 extant public companies. Up until now they have only eliminated 70, which is an unfortunate result as Spain struggles to pay its debts and cuts basic services and investments in its future.
Griñán should provide some explanations and put an end to this hopeless situation. The Ministry of Finance should enforce administrative reforms, especially for the regional governments that are asking for national aid packages.
