The unconstitutionality of the Law of the Parliament of the Canary Islands 18/2019, on urgent measures for the regulation of public employment.

Abstract

Recently the Constitutional Court has handed down several sentences, and has some more pending to hand down, on Law of the Parliament of the Canary Islands 18/2019, of December 2, on urgent measures for the organization of public employment in the Canary Islands administrations. It established that those who are selected in the calls derived from the public employment offers corresponding to the years 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019, would take possession of the jobs that are offered and chosen, on a provisional basis. This norm generated several questions of unconstitutionality presented by the Contentious-Administrative Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife n.º 2, in addition to by the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of Santa Cruz de Tenerife of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, questioning the norm since perspective of the invasion of state powers due to violation of basic regulations and, in the case of Court No. 2, for being before a so-called “singular law”, without meeting the requirements that constitutional jurisprudence has demanded of these exceptional regulations. To date, this has led to the declaration
of unconstitutionality of the second paragraph of the first article of the law, including its two subsections.