{"id":39412,"date":"2023-02-01T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/?p=39412"},"modified":"2023-02-03T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:26:26","slug":"balearic-islands-catalan-doctors-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/balearic-islands-catalan-doctors-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Balearic Islands will require Catalan for 80% of healthcare workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>After weeks of controversy, the Government has reached an agreement for the Balearic Islands to require the requirement of Catalan in 80% of the positions offered in the stabilization process for doctors and nurses<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In 2018, the Government approved a decree giving healthcare workers two years to acquire basic knowledge of Catalan. The union CSIF challenged the decree, considering it violated equal access to public employment. Eventually, both the Balearic Islands Higher Court and the Supreme Court annulled the government&#8217;s decree and Catalan was no longer required.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31006 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos.jpeg\" alt=\"M\u00e9dicos\" width=\"398\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/antigenos-grupo-de-medicos.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Government launched the stabilization process for these medical and nursing positions without this requirement, stating that a high percentage of these positions were to cover positions with a chronic and pressing shortage of staff.<\/p>\n<p>The IBSalut has analyzed the 6,000 applications submitted by nursing and medical professionals and has confirmed that in most categories there were sufficient applicants with the required knowledge of Catalan. In fact, the list of categories with a shortage of staff has been reviewed and reduced from 50 specialties to 15. In these staff-deficient categories, knowledge of the language will not be required. The Government assures that the staff will have the obligation to know both official languages, which will be guaranteed through language accompaniment.<\/p>\n<p>Those who access the remaining non-deficient positions will have two years to demonstrate that they have the required Catalan certification for their position. This is how it is done in stabilization processes that do not affect doctors and nurses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of controversy, the Government has reached an agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/balearic-islands-catalan-doctors-nurses\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1518,1513],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Balearic Islands will require Catalan for 80% of healthcare workers - Mallorca Global Mag<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Government has reached an agreement for the Balearic Islands to require Catalan in 80% of the positions offered in the stabilization process for doctors and nurses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mallorcaglobalmag.es\/en\/balearic-islands-catalan-doctors-nurses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Balearic Islands will require Catalan for 80% of healthcare workers - 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