Workers assigned to the management of regional Operational Programs (OP) will be definitively integrated into the staff of the different Regional Coordination and Development Commissions (CCDR), determined a decree-law approved by the Council of Ministers yesterday, the 27th.
In practice, this means that these 156 technicians are no longer officially linked to the Agency for Development and Cohesion, a public institute headquartered in Lisbon, and now have permanent contracts with the regional commissions.
The diploma approved yesterday «establishes the terms for the integration of 156 workers in the Regional Coordination and Development Commissions (CCDR). These workers are assigned to the Regional Operational Programs (POR), whose management is a legal responsibility of the CCDR, but currently belong to the specific staff map of the Agency for Development and Cohesion”, explains the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion.
This is the culmination of a process that had already been underway for about two years and was, at one point, marked by the uncertainties of these workers, who, despite carrying out qualified and very specific technical work, related to the management of Funds the European Union, at the level of the different regions, had precarious links.
In 2018, within the scope of the Program for the Extraordinary Regularization of Precarious Relationships in Public Administration (PREVPAP), the execution of permanent contracts with these employees, who, in some cases, had been performing functions for more than 20 years, was taken into account.
However, the solution found was the integration of the 156 technicians assigned to regional Operational Programs, at national level, in the Agency for Development and Cohesion.
At the time, the precarious CCDRs in the Algarve who worked in the management of the regional OP publicly expressed their concern that this measure could mean their departure from the region, and they questioned the Government's option not to link them to the Algarve CCDR.
"The Algarve region deserves not only to manage the funds from the community funds that are destined for them, but above all, it deserves to maintain its human resources, highly qualified in the management of community funds and knowledgeable about the Algarve reality", defended the group of workers .
The answer to these fears was given by Pedro Marques, then minister of Planning and Infrastructure, who guaranteed that the officials in question would stay in the region, something that the decree-law approved yesterday definitively determines.
This approval was the final step in the process, but, in the case of CCDR workers in the Algarve, the signing of permanent contracts, in the strict sense, had already happened in 2019.
In March of last year, 15 workers signed employment contracts in public functions for an indefinite period at the time, he was automatically assigned to the Regional Operational Program CRESC Algarve 2020, continuing to exercise his professional functions in Faro.
In the meantime, more precarious ties were regularized, with the total amounting to "about two dozen", according to a CCDR source in the Algarve.
The measure covers a total of 156 workers from the five CCDRs in the country: Algarve, Alentejo, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo, Center and North.
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