The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, explained that they are complying with the ruling on the Employment Plans and, through its legal services, is analyzing it “to be able to put a solution and see what response can be given”.
The head of the Government Delegation, in an interview given to Onda Cero, explained that, historically, the Employment Plans were being made in a certain way, in which workers were considered to be out of agreement, after receiving a subsidy for a work and service.
“Currently both the Autonomous City and the Government Delegation have been sued and there are sentences right now that we did not have before,” he said. Hence, the legal services “are studying a solution and not continuing to incur issues that a court ruling has told us need to change.”
At this point, Moh wanted to make it clear that he is drawn to the statements made by the local President, Juan José Imbroda, since the Autonomous City has also been denounced and also has a conviction.
He has also acknowledged that he is struck by the fact that the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) only requests the resignation of the Government Delegate but not that of the President of Melilla.
“The CGT is supposed to be on the side of the workers and yet, when the Government Delegation says that we abide by the sentence and that we want to fix it, they tell us not to make excuses and to continue hiring,” he recalled.
“It’s not logical,” he said. “The coherent thing would be to rejoice and praise the Government Delegate for saying that we are going to put a solution. However, faced with this, they ask for my resignation but not that of the President of the Autonomous City, when they are also receiving the same denunciations in the same terms,” he said.
What is more, the CGT publicly said that if the Delegate went ahead with the contracts, they would denounce it for prevarication and, when the Delegation announces that it is going to be expected that the relevant consultations will be resolved by the legal services to continue with the contracts, “they accuse me of incompetence, they tell me that I must continue to contract and ask for my resignation,” Moh recalled.
“It’s all very contradictory. I think they should have the same argument because, instead of looking out for the interest of the workers, it seems that they are looking out for another type of interest,” he said.
Plans of 2024 and 2025
During the radio interview, the top representative of the Government of Spain in the city was asked about the fact that this year the Employment Plans have started later than other years.
“Last year, which was a difficult year with the electoral advance and the government in office, the call, due to the budgetary modification required by the employment plan, came out later,” explained Moh, who added that, when this happens, “it comes later and the deadlines are different.”
In fact, before beginning the contracting of the Employment Plans, it is necessary for the Interministerial Remuneration Commission (CECIR) to establish salaries, as well as the positioning of the credit, as well as the control of the plan by intervention and other technical and bureaucratic issues.
Precisely in these circumstances, the regulations of the Employment Plan changed so that, instead of ending on June 30 as other years, it would have a deadline for its implementation until December 31 and thus allow the contracts to remain for 6 months and not affect the workers.
Regarding whether this could affect the development of next year’s Employment Plans, the Delegate explained that this will not be the case. “We are already working on the next Employment Plan, at the Ministerial level, because we need, again, a budgetary modification to get the credit for the next year,” he announced.
However, “the Employment Plan 2024-2025 would not have to overlap because, yes, it begins to manage the bureaucratic issue before, which as I have explained have already been started, but they are launched in 2025 and, therefore, there would be no problem of overlapping”, he argued.