CONCEPTS

Public employees’ lifetime appointed and those contracted for an indefinite period of time fulfil their functions integrated into careers

» Career

The career is made up of one or more categories to which corresponds a legally described functional content

Careers shall have the categories that functional demands shall impose

The dynamics of careers is related to human resources management in each service

Human resources management is articulated with global management needs

The global management depends upon available budget capacities and by the dynamics of the performance assessment

» Category

The category is the position that public employees fill in the scope of a career, by reference to the single compensation scale

In case of existing several categories, to each one shall correspond a specific functional specificity

» Work positions

The work position is characterised according to:

» Assignment, competence or activity that his/her occupant is intended to comply with or to execute

» Position or the career and category that correspond to them

» Within each career or category, professional or academic training area that his/her occupant shall be holder

» Functional content

To each career, or category in which a career may be unfolded, corresponds a legally described functional content. This description shall be comprehensive skipping details regarding the tasks therein foreseen

The functional content of higher categories integrates that of those that are lower

» Performance of related functions

The functional content description may not, in any circumstance, be used as ground for the non-compliance with the obedience duty and does not exclude the assignment to the public employee of functions, though not explicitly mentioned, that are similar or functionally related, for the performance of which the public employee holds adequate professional qualification and do not entail professional depreciation

When the performance of similar or functionally related functions to the main activity demands special qualifications, the public employee is entitled to vocational training of duration no lower than 10 annual hours

» Adequacy of professional skills and qualifications to the work position and balance between the public employee’s professional and family life

The public employee shall be placed on the work position that is more suitable for its professional skills and qualification in the scope of the career/category where he/she is integrated or that serves as reference for the performance of functions for which he/she was hired

The conditions for the performance of work shall be favourable for the balance between professional and family life and ensure compliance with security and health at work rules

» Workplace

Performance of work shall occur in the workplace corresponding to the work position for which the public employee was recruited, save for legally provided mobility situations, being attached to his/hers functions or to vocational training

» Pay steps

A variable number of pay steps corresponds to each category of careers