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Canary Islands Emergencies Adds 20 Workers Amid Labor Conflict

The Government reinforces staff for crisis management while uncertainty persists over the transfer of personnel from GSC to Gesplan.

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The Canary Islands Government has incorporated 20 new workers into the Directorate General of Emergencies to enhance crisis anticipation and management across the islands, amidst a labor conflict.

The Canary Executive has introduced a team of 20 professionals who will join the Directorate General of Emergencies, strengthening the archipelago's response capacity to crises. These new staff members are integrated through an assignment to the public company Gesplan, in a move aimed at improving emergency planning and self-management.
This measure is part of the development of a new law for the Canary Islands Civil Protection and Emergencies System, which includes the creation of a Canary Islands Emergency Agency to unify personnel involved in managing these phenomena. However, this reorganization has generated tensions with employees of the public company Gestión de Servicios para la Seguridad y Salud en Canarias (GSC), whose personnel from the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (Ceoes 112) are slated to move to Gesplan without an agreement yet in place.
The 20 new professionals will be distributed between the control rooms in Tenerife and Gran Canaria. As detailed by Montse Román, head of Civil Protection and Emergency Care for the Canary Islands Government, during a press conference, 14 of them will reinforce the operational rooms of Cecoes 112 (seven per province), while six will be assigned to the risk planning unit, focusing on meteorological phenomena.
Román highlighted that the newly incorporated profiles possess prior experience in emergency rooms, administrations related to emergency plans, or in fields such as forest fires and meteorology.
For his part, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Manuel Miranda, indicated that the new Canary Islands Civil Protection law, which aims to coordinate all emergency policies through the future Canary Islands Emergency Agency, will be presented shortly, before the end of the current legislative term.
The transfer of Cecoes personnel from GSC to Gesplan, initially scheduled before January 1st, remains unresolved. Andrés Carlos Hernández, president of the GSC works council in Las Palmas and representative for CC OO, stated that negotiations have been stalled since October of last year and that GSC was not informed about the incorporation of the 20 individuals hired by Gesplan, alleging that the training for these new staff members will fall upon GSC employees.

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