An administrative assistant from the Canary Islands Health Service has publicly denounced that the open stabilization process for her colleagues in the profession will force several people to leave Lanzarote and move to other islands, despite having their family, home, and life on the island of volcanoes.
The abusive use of temporary contracts in the public sector led the European Union to urge Spain to curb high temporality among its public employees. Among the measures proposed by the Spanish Government, a regulation was approved to advance stabilization processes, intended for those workers who have chained years of temporary contracts.
Spain approved Law 20/2021 on urgent measures for the reduction of temporality in public employment, which was published in December 2021. This regulation established an extension of the stabilization processes and obliged each autonomous community to initiate the stabilization process before June 2022. Each autonomous region had to conclude this stabilization before December 2024.
In the Canary Islands, the deadlines have not been met, and the autonomous community has several stabilization processes open as of June 2026. One of them is stabilizing administrative assistant personnel of the Canary Islands Health Service.
In addition to the delays in the approval of stabilization, this employee denounces that they did not receive information from either the Canary Islands Health Service or the unions that there was a possibility that these stabilization positions would be given outside the island.
"Some got a position in La Gomera, others got a position in La Palma, others are going to the Materno [in Gran Canaria], to Tenerife, etc.," she recounts in a conversation with this media outlet. "In my case, I'm staying here, but at the Insular Hospital, most people were sent away," she explains.
At the same time, these professionals are waiting to know when the resolution of this stabilization process must be executed and, therefore, when they will have to leave the island to access that position.
Thus, this worker points out that it has also not been made clear what the scoring procedure has been to differentiate between labor and statutory personnel. Since labor personnel include all those workers who, until the Government of the Canary Islands took over the management of the Insular Hospital, were hired by the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
"They did this because they have to give it away out of obligation and they don't give a damn where it lands," she maintains. "They are strange things, you do them late and badly," she concludes.
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