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CSIF, CCOO, and UGT support the decree, while CIG rejects it for not having developed the human resources management plan earlier.
The public employment offer (OPE) of the Servizo Galego de Saúde (Sergas) for 2025, which was expanded by the Consello de la Xunta on Monday, will include around a thousand nursing positions and 1,124 positions for nursing assistant technicians. This means that almost two out of every three vacancies in this year’s OPE will be in these categories.
This information is provided by the Consellería de Sanidade in a statement following the conclusion of the Sergas sectorial table meeting, where three unions (CSIF, CCOO, and UGT) have supported the offer, while the majority union (CIG-Saúde) has voted against it, criticizing the lack of a human resources management plan.
This year’s OPE will consist of 3,460 positions. At the end of 2024, 1,460 positions had been announced, exhausting the replacement rate of 120% allowed by the currently effective State General Budget Law for 2023. In this context, the Xunta decided on Monday to apply an exceptional mechanism for priority sectors, allowing for an additional 2,000 positions.
The document presented to the unions includes 1,340 vacancies for health graduates, the majority of which (1,124) correspond to nursing assistant technicians. In addition, there will be offers for around a thousand nursing positions and 271 healthcare graduate positions. The largest offer will be for emergency hospital doctors, but there will also be specialists in anesthesiology and resuscitation, digestive system, clinical psychology, cardiology, and pediatrics—both hospital and primary care.
Regarding management and services personnel, there will be 725 positions, mostly in the category of orderly, general services staff (PSX in Galician), administrative function assistants, and kitchen assistants.
In addition to the 3,460 OPE positions, another 100 specialist primary care physician (FEAP) positions are planned for hard-to-fill posts. However, these will be made available through a separate decree.
OVER 5,500 POSITIONS YET TO BE FILLED
The expectation is that processes to fill all vacancies will be announced soon, in conjunction with others pending from previous years’ offers. In total, there will be 5,550 positions.
According to the draft call decree, reported by Europa Press, the expansion of the 2025 OPE is in line with Sergas’ goal of reducing the temporary employment rate to 8% as stipulated by State Law 20/2021. Various stabilization processes have been carried out in recent years.
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PLAN
The only union that voted against the OPE on Tuesday was CIG-Saúde. Its national secretary, Manuel González Moreiras, criticizes the Consellería for using replacement rates «as it suits them» and for announcing the offer expansion on Monday without prior negotiation in the sectorial table and without having the human resources management plan ready, which would define personnel «needs.»
«We demand that planning be done based on criteria and not based on the need to reduce the temporary employment rate now,» the representative of the majority union explains, noting that Sergas will not create new staff but rather call for positions «already existing in the system» to «stabilize.»
Overall, unions agree that the Administration must expedite the calls—as committed to in the table, according to sources consulted—because many temporary contracts will expire at the beginning of July after three years of interim status.
Carlos Castro, head of CSIF Sanidade Galicia, welcomes the magnitude of the OPE, although it will always seem «insufficient» until the replacement rate is eliminated at the national level.
Luz Fernández Tuñas, head of CCOO Sanidade, expresses similar sentiments, calling for promptness because «offering employment is one thing, and calling for positions in their respective processes is another.» «Ideally, they would call for all» the positions pending for years. CCOO supported the OPE decree for having «so many positions» by utilizing an additional rate that they had never used before.
OTHER ISSUES
In other matters, unions have used the sectorial meeting to express their dissatisfaction to the Consellería about the expansions of specialist primary care physicians (FEAP) at the expense of family doctor positions, for cases «that are not hard to fill» as initially planned.
CCOO even considers taking this matter to court if a family doctor cannot access a specific position in their category because it has been converted to a FEAP position. «It is their right,» warns Fernández Tuñas.
Also during Tuesday’s sectorial meeting, an agreement was reached for Sergas workers who want to pursue a Dual Vocational Training program to take a leave of absence for special services and thus retain their position and assignment.
