The common council ofAndorra la Vella expected to approve on Thursday July 30 the Regulation of the voluntary retirement program for civil servants. The measure will allow workers with a long professional career to advance the transition towards ordinary retirement through a system regulated and conditioned to the needs of the organization.
The program aims to prepare the generational relief within the communal administration. The average age of the staff is of 52 years and the average antiquity is located in 22 years. The common believes that in the coming years it will be necessary incorporate new professional profiles linked to digital transformationinnovation and the application of artificial intelligence to public services.
They may apply for early retirement civil servants who are five years or less from the ordinary retirement age and accredit at least 25 years of active service in the Common, with the last ten consecutively.
The councilor of Talent and People Management, Eva Tadeohas defended that early retirement is not seen as a privilege or as an expense with no return, but as a tool to plan the workforce, facilitate generational succession and adapt the organization to current needs.
The program will make it possible to organize departures, guarantee the transfer of accumulated knowledge and review the jobs that remain vacant. Some positions will be filled with new profiles, while others may be amortized through processes of internal reorganization, redistribution of functions and modernization of procedures.
Tadeo has remarked that the goal is not to automatically replace each person who takes part in the program. The municipality will analyze each position to determine whether it is necessary to cover it, transform it or assume its functions through an internal restructuring, with the aim of having a more agile and efficient administration without affecting the quality of services.
The benefit will be from 60% of the fixed remuneration, with a maximum limit equivalent to the median wage and with the guaranteed minimum wage. The early retirement will be incompatible with any remuneration as an official or public sector interim.
The number of beneficiaries will depend on budget availability. The municipality plans to allocate one item equivalent to 1% of the gross wage bill in 2027. If requests exceed available resources, a scale will be applied that will take into account age, seniority and proven health circumstances.
