The General Budget State Law of 2017 and the stabilization of temporary public employment

Abstract

The labor temporality and the precariousness of the labor relations in the Spanish public administrations, and specifically, in the local administration, has become one of the main evils that our public organizations suffer. The percentage of temporary staff, year after year, has been increasing. Nor legislative or organizational tools have been adopted to solve a problem that seems endemic. The General Budget State Law of 2017 introduced a series of legislative measures to reduce the temporality in Public Administrations. Despite the will of the legislator to rationalize the existing regulation, in practice its implementation leads to important problems, especially in the field of the local sector.
This article aims to shed some light on a regulation that has been defined as deficient and confusing, mainly in the local sphere. Therefore, it is necessary to establish, in a clear and transparent manner, what are the paths to be followed to effectively reduce temporality in our local public administrations which should be understood as organizations providing public services and, therefore, as employers and creators of labor relations.

Keywords:

temporality, public employment, permanent employment, non-permanent, budget, law, public administration, local administration, labor relations, precariousness, solutions, RPT, staff, state