The workers' representatives on the Works Council of the Art, Culture and Tourism Centers (CACT) of the Cabildo of Lanzarote have rejected the way in which the Public Entity has launched the selection process for new personnel, as well as internal promotion for workers of the Centers. The workers have described this process as "obscurantist" and consider that "it has hardly been publicized" and criticize that "applicants will have to submit their documentation in offices located outside of Lanzarote".
Specifically, the EPEL put out to tender last Monday, January 19, 9 new external selection positions, which would be open to the concurrence of any citizen who meets the stipulated requirements, as well as 3 internal promotion positions for current CACT workers.
In the opinion of the Works Council, it is "lamentable that, taking into account the scarcity and need for job offers suffered by the population of Lanzarote, the Public Entity of the CACT has been unable to publish, through the media it usually uses, a concurrence of job positions as broad as the one it now intends to fill." "It is incomprehensible that they send photos and press releases to the media every other time, for minor reasons, and are unable to give due publicity when it comes to offering 9 new public jobs on an island like Lanzarote, where thousands of people could be in a position to apply."
The offer of new employment and internal promotion, which puts out to tender positions of chef, center manager, tourist guide, human resources manager or head of accounting, among others, has only been published in the employment section of the website of the Tourist Centers, and not even on the cover of the institutional page of the Entity or the Cabildo, denounce the labor representatives.
"The workers sustain the suspicion of premeditated obscurantism, also, in similar processes that have taken place in the past, and always, coinciding with the pre-election period. Therefore, we will be very vigilant in ensuring that it is a clean process, in which free competition and equal opportunities are ensured," say the Works Council. A process that "starts badly, taking into account the secrecy that the EPEL managers keep when transferring information to workers and citizens."
A temporary employment agency as an intermediary
On the other hand, the workers criticize "that a good part of the selection process is being carried out by a temporary employment agency (ETT), which means, on the one hand, an extra expense, duplicated, for an Entity that already has its own human resources personnel and, on the other hand, means leaving something as important and transparent as an opposition to a job in the administration in the hands of a company without public control."
In addition, the labor representatives denounce that, as can be seen in the very bases of the competition, the applicants will have to submit the required documentation "in person", and within 15 days, in offices located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, during office hours.
"If to the lack of publicity is added this fact, the short time to submit the documentation in offices located outside of Lanzarote, it is clear that the main will of the CACT management is not precisely to encourage the citizens of Lanzarote to apply for these positions," they conclude.
