The groups that support the Government of the Canary Islands have rejected this Wednesday a proposal to modify the hiring system for temporary staff of the Canarian Health Service (SCS), presented by Nueva Canarias and amended by the PSOE, because, they have assured, the Executive is already working to change the system.
Ione Caraballo, deputy of Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista, defended the initiative before the plenary, in which the Government of the Canary Islands was urged to open a process of participation, dialogue, and negotiation in the Health Sectoral Table to adapt the contracting regulations to the current healthcare reality.
It was also proposed the repeal of the Order of June 3, 2011 which regulates the temporary hiring lists of the SCS and to agree with the unions the elaboration of new regulations.
The current system is "deficient, opaque, rigid and without homogeneous criteria", affects both professionals and the quality of the service, and leads substitute staff to a "forced hyper-availability" and to unfair penalties, which generates stress, anxiety and physical and emotional exhaustion, with a direct impact on healthcare and on work-life balance, according to the initiative.
Although all groups agreed on this diagnosis, the proposal was rejected by Vox, because the negotiation is based on the unions, and by the Government parties (CC, PP, ASG and AHI) because, they assured, that the Executive is in the process of changing the system and for this purpose has already convened the Sectoral Board.
Caraballo was convinced that the presentation of this proposal for its debate in Parliament, which has reached the Chamber by initiative of those affected, is what has finally moved the Government to act.
The groups that support the Executive assured that they will be attentive to those negotiations so that they finally result in an update of the contracting system.
