A thousand Basque interns over 50 years of age, at risk of losing their jobs when Basque profiles are required

A thousand interim officials

of the Basque Government

in the administration in the coming months for not accrediting the

.

Workers

and after

in the Basque administration will see the doors of their labor consolidation closed if, as the

union has denounced today , the Government of PNV and PSE-EE does not accept any of the unions' proposals, including being exempt from the Basque language requirement.

, in order to advance in the shared objective of normalizing the use of Euskera in our administration", denounced the union led by

.

UGT and CCOO are the two unions that have sounded the alarm about the situation of a thousand workers of the Basque administration who aspire to consolidate themselves as civil servants through the merit assessment route opened by the Government of Spain.

According to the UGT, the Basque Government has verified that

required for their job, but the rest (18%) have not demonstrated the knowledge of Basque that has been imposed on them.

The accreditation of these linguistic profiles constitutes a sword of Damocles for a thousand interns who aspire to be civil servants in

.

"It is essential to reach

, and not in a hasty manner as the Basque Government wants to do in the coming months", states the Basque union in its public complaint that takes place when The Basque Government advances in the approval of a new decree to give another turn of the screw in the requirement of Basque to be civil servant in Euskadi.

The text prepared by the Department of Culture and Euskera directed

establishes that "Basque is the language of the Autonomous Community of Euskadi" and proposes for its promotion to convert it into a "language of service, relationship and work of normal use and general" in the Basque administration.

The Basque Government plans

but a first proposal will be published in the coming weeks and it establishes that the measures adopted

, in reference to Spanish.

The Basque Government intends in the future decree that the "linguistic criteria" established in the administration

and specifically when they have a direct relationship with citizens (article 9.7 of the decree).

In addition, it is also established within the additional provisions that

"will implement programs and plans for the normalization of Basque aimed at progressively ensuring the linguistic competence of its staff".

Euskaldunization plans that, according to the Urkullu Government, will have to use "similar criteria" to those defined by the decree being drafted.

UGT's appeal to the Basque administration comes in the face of the silence of the PSE-EE, which is waiting for the final wording of the decree promoted by Zupiria to pronounce itself.

The current deputy lehendakari

denounced in the 2016 election campaign that access to

.

Later, the socialists both in the Basque Government and in the provincial councils have not raised again this policy of euskaldunization that they control both in the Basque Government and in the councils representing the PNV

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