Temporality in public employment as an active failure in the Administration

Abstract

The high rate of temporary employment in the Spanish Public Administration has become a structural problem, an active failure, which prevents the development of proper personnel management, reducing the effectiveness and efficiency of the public organization. Public services, as pillars of the welfare state, are negatively affected by the material impossibility of developing personnel policies appropriate to the real needs of citizens. The main cause of this situation is the continued non-compliance with the regulations governing temporality, making it ordinary, even abusive, the use of exceptional techniques. The negative effects of this non-compliance are noticed through the observation of the affected groups and, in short, the evident damage to the general interest, putting the constitutional model of public employment at risk, in addition to reducing the legitimacy and strength of Democracy itself.