The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday the Royal Decree of Public Employment Offer of the General State Administration by 2025, with a total of 26,889 places that, added to the 9,699 of the Armed Forces and the State Security Forces and Bodies add 36,588. The total call is lower than last year, with historical 40,000 positions, but the government presumes record, for the fifth consecutive year, in the new section, with 27,697 places, while 8,891 will be internal promotion. “We inject New Savia to the State, to give it the solidity, closeness and capacities required by the social, economic and historical moment,” said the Minister of Public Function, Oscar López.
According to government calculations, the offer in the AGE, with 26,889 officials of the official (13,400) and labor personnel, involves the creation of 5,400 net jobs and “deepens the change of tendency achieved in 2021, maintaining an entry flow of new income in the system over the loss of troops”. “The progressive government has a clear, ambitious and differential public project. A model that in seven years has broken the dynamics of abandonment and cuts that the PP starred until 2018,” López said.
This call includes places for the General State Administration (AGE), which depend on the government and its different agencies, such as the Public Employment State Service, Social Security or the General Directorate of Traffic. Precisely, from the Executive they want to strengthen the attention to citizenship, with 8,851 places for official personnel for these services, but also for the foreigner offices, the territorial management of justice, the cadastre, the tax agency, the offices of expedition of the DNI, homologation of educational titles, libraries, archives and state quality and inclusive ”.
As for the call for the Armed Forces, this is 2,847 squares, 181 more than in 2024; For civil guards are 3,713, with an increase of 555 seats; and 3,139 for national police, with 282 more places.
In addition, 10% of the places of this public employment offer are intended for people with disabilities. They are a total of 2,610 places, of which people with intellectual disabilities opt for 538. Along the PAR, Public Function has announced that the capacities will be reinforced to facilitate the incorporation of these and these workers to the administration, such as the units of inclusion in the ministerial departments, which were constituted in 2024.
Another of the objectives of the Executive in recent years has been to reverse the aging of the templates, something that has partially achieved, with a decrease in the average age of 51 to 49 years in two years.
“Insufficient” for unions
The Ministry of Public Function closed on July 3 the negotiation with the unions for this new public employment offer. Some conversations that the government, which has the competition in this field, left without the approval of the union organizations. CCOO considered that the places were “sovereignly insufficient” and CSIF that “reduces the creation of net employment.” Even UGT, the only one that last year accepted the call, has refused to sign an agreement.
Last year was a public offer of historical employment, which exceeds for the first time the 40,000 places, of which more than 30,000 were for positions in the General State Administration – after 21,000 free access and more than 10,000 internal promotion – and the rest for personnel of the Armed Forces and the State Security Forces and Bodies. Although sources close to the conversations had already reduced expectations regarding that figure for this new exercise, if they had indicated that it would approach.
Apart from this call, Public Function announced at the end of June an extraordinary offer of 1,000 places, to guarantee the early partial retirement of the labor personnel of the General State Administration, which had recognized that right but had remained in Limbo after the pension agreement, which forced the reliefs to have an indefinite contract already full time. Precisely, the recovery of this right for the labor personnel throughout the Administration and its “full implementation” for the official and statute is one of the claims of the unions.
Last week, CCOO and UGT raised the tension with the government, with a protest before the Ministry of Finance, to which 2,000 people attended, according to the organizers, to claim that the government “completes the execution of the framework agreement for a 21st century administration and the shock plan to reduce temporality”, in addition to “the salary increase corresponding to this year.”
