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On March 10, the Barcelona City Council published a competition for senior technical positions in engineering. Open to all engineering graduates, this call has been temporarily suspended due to allegations filed by four professional colleges of postgraduate engineers. The METGEC has met with the City Council to reverse this situation which it considers discriminatory.
The president of the Institute of Graduates in Engineering and Technical Engineers of Spain (INGITE), José Antonio Galdón; the Dean of the College and President of the Bureau of Technical Engineering and Engineering Graduates of Catalonia (METGEC), Miquel Darnés; and legal adviser Juan Gracia met with the manager of People and organizational development of Barcelona City Council, Javier Pascual on 17 June.
From left to right: The president of INGITE, José Antonio Galdón; the dean of the Association and president of the METGEC, Miquel Darnés; and legal counsel Juan Gracia.
At this meeting, representatives of technical and undergraduate engineers asked the council to reopen the call for senior technical positions in engineering, an open competition published on March 10 that was initially open to all engineering graduates. and that it was temporarily suspended due to allegations made by four professional colleges of postgraduate engineers, traditionally called “superiors”.
A "discriminatory" situation
INGITE and METGEC expressed at the meeting that it is not justified that in the places in the category of Group A1, as is the case of those offered by the City Council, graduate engineers are discriminated against because, by training and skills, they are qualified to carry out the tasks of these jobs. In fact, they recalled that when the administrations block the passage of engineering graduates, in the calls for Group A1 vacancies, they are in breach of the State Law of the Basic Statute of Public Employees.