There are more civil servants. And also more forward contracts – Daily News – Lisbon

The government closed the year 2015 with over 2509 workers. It is the first increase since the arrival of the troika

The government reached in December 2015 with a total of 658,565 workers. There are more 2509 than a year earlier, after two consecutive quarters of increase in civil servants universe, the first since the arrival of the troika. And the same is true in annual terms: after the falls in 2012, 2013 and 2014, there was last year an increase of 0.4%. Largely supported by forward contracts.

Not only are private companies that are making greater use of precarious contracts. In public administration, and the second indicates the most recent data Summary Statistics Public Employment (SIEP), released yesterday, in December 2015, worked in the civil service 71,723 people with fixed-term contracts, an increase compared to 69,674 precarious recorded one year before.

the ministries of Education and Higher Education account for about half of fixed-term contracts, even face to what happened a year ago, the first has reinforced the number of poor, while the second the declined.

This reinforcement of forward contracts is despite the last state budgets have been given indications that contracts can not be renewed unless in exceptional and duly authorized situations. In spite of the increase, the share of poor in the total public sector remained stable (of around 10.8%), since the universe of workers indefinitely and the bond by appointment also had a slight increase compared to what happened in late 2014.

the reversal of the civil servants downward trend is highlighted by the Directorate-General for Administration and public Employment, to note that data already collected had occasionally realized positive changes, but this is the first time since the SIEP began to be published (in late 2011), “that the government come to the end of the year with more employees than in the same period.”

for 2016 and after saying that he intended to stabilize the universe of civil servants, the government signed the draft state budget in order to reduce about 10 thousand employees. To do this, only allow one entry per two exits to retirement.

It is true that since 2011, the public sector lost 69,064 people, a decrease of 9%.

In this period, the career of nursery and primary school teachers was the one that lost more people (reducing by 22 103), followed by operating assistant (least 20,977 workers) and administrative assistant (with a break 12 966 people). The previous government set in motion a number of friendly severance programs, directed specifically by teachers and administrative and operational workers.

But not all sectors of public administration shrank the number of workers between the arrival of the troika and the 2015 year closing at the end of last year there were more 88 judges, five more diplomats and more doctors in 1689.

according to SIEP, the number of civil servants in rehabilitation returned to download third to the fourth quarter of 2015, when it counted 803 people in this surplus bag.

the number is expected to continue to fall in the coming months, as the government has indicated to the workers dismissed by the institute Social Security in early 2015 returned to be reinstated in the service. The current government has also said it plans to review the current rehabilitation system.