The Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Albert Dalmau, announced today in the Parliament, during the voting on amendments to the Catalan Public Employment Bill, the creation “for the first time” in Catalonia of 540 positions for nationally qualified civil servants aimed at filling vacancies for secretaries and auditors in Catalonia. Dalmau assured that the process to implement these positions will be approved next week within the Catalan government.
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Catalonia has 1,583 positions reserved for nationally qualified civil servants. Of these, 629 are filled by this type of tenured civil servants, representing 40% of the total. 954 positions remain to be filled, the remaining 60%. Within this deficit, 666 positions are occupied by temporary or interim appointments, and 178 are not covered by any type of appointment (a figure that rises to 288 if exempted places are counted). In summary: about 954 positions need to be properly filled to meet the needs of secretaries, auditors, and treasurers in Catalan municipalities, with a call for 218 positions already underway as a first response.
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According to a report from the Sindicatura de Comptes de Catalunya, the external auditing body of the Parliament, it is confirmed that the structural problem affects 51% of Catalan municipalities, which suffer from the lack of stability of nationally qualified civil servant positions, especially secretaries and auditors.
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The consequences of this shortage affect the day-to-day operations of the town councils. The lack of nationally qualified civil servants not only complicates municipal management but also leads to administrative collapse and the paralysis of procedures. A situation that governments acknowledge “distresses mayors” because they have to comply with regulations and approve budgets without having adequate staff.
The lack of municipal civil servants with national qualifications, such as secretaries, auditors, or treasurers – key positions in local administration – not only complicates daily management in municipalities but also causes administrative collapse and, therefore, the paralysis of procedures. In Catalonia, 60% of municipalities do not have these civil servants, who must be replaced by municipal workers.
