The problem of temporary contracts in public administrations: Social Services of Local Corporations and programmes subsidised by the Autonomous Communities in the exercise of their own competences

Abstract

The high rates of temporary employment in our country are the result of fraudulent practices by public administrations, especially at the regional and local levels. In this article we analyse one of these practices, which is recurrent in the field of municipal community social services, consisting of providing the functions entrusted to them through non-stable contracts, which is detrimental both for the workers and for the citizens, as this job instability directly affects the quality of the service provided by our administration. As this practice is recurrent throughout Spain and given the impossibility of describing the practices of each autonomous community and each municipality in the same article, we will focus on Andalusia. Specifically, the lack of causality of the temporary contracts signed for the development of the Andalusian Regional Strategy for social cohesion and inclusion, as well as the local plans for implementing this intervention in disadvantaged areas will be analysed. The conclusions reached in this analysis are extrapolated to other areas in which the same practices are developed.