<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) union has denounced "the exclusion, for yet another year," of foreign workers' labor (PLEX) from the Public Employment Offer for the 2025 fiscal year.</strong></h4> In a statement, the USO Citizen Service Federation (FAC-USO) expressed its "total rejection" of Royal Decree 651/2025 on Public Employment Offers for the 2025 fiscal year, which, "far from responding to the real needs of the General State Administration (AGE), once again incurs in the same structural errors of previous years: a shortage of positions, a low replacement rate, and the perpetuation of temporary employment." According to the union, "the most serious aspect is the exclusion, for yet another year, of foreign workers (PLEX) from internal promotion processes." This group, USO warned, "has been providing public service from outside our borders for years," and "yet they continue to be treated as second-class personnel." "FAC-USO has firmly defended—and will continue to do so—the effective integration of PLEX into the professional careers of the AGE," it warned. "It is intolerable that they are prevented from advancing professionally simply because they work abroad, thus perpetuating unjustifiable and shameful discrimination," it stated. USO therefore agrees with the <a href="https://thediplomatinspain.com/en/2025/07/27/ccoo-denounces-that-the-public-employment-offer-for-2025-sidelines-workers-working-abroad-for-the-umpteenth-time/">Workers' Commissions (CCOO) union</a>, which has also denounced the "systematic exclusion" of personnel working abroad (PLEX) from "internal promotion processes," which "violates fundamental rights, hinders the professional development of a group essential to the State's foreign action, and exacerbates the existing inequality with respect to Administration personnel in the national territory." According to the CCOO, the State Secretariat for Public Service has been excluding the PLEX group from internal promotion announcements since 2019. This situation led to the filing of an administrative appeal by CCOO-Exterior, which achieved the partial annulment of the announcement due to a violation of the right to collective bargaining. Despite this, the Administration did not rectify its position and, in 2021, "it again excluded our group from the OEP, which constituted a direct violation of the principle of equal treatment," the CCOO lamented. In response to this repeated failure, the union filed a new lawsuit seeking the annulment of the discriminatory provisions and the restoration of the group's right to participate on equal terms with other staff in the General State Administration. The CCOO also recalled that, in November 2022, an agreement was signed between the Administration and the trade unions CCOO, UGT, and CSIF, the objective of which was to advance the inclusion of foreign workers in internal promotion processes. However, it stated, this commitment "has been repeatedly breached since its signing, without any progress in its implementation."
