Javier Jordá: “It is false that services will be stopped. Rather municipal sports will be improved”

The Councillor for Sports of Benidorm City Council, Javier Jordá, stated this Monday that the objective of the local government is to “improve and reinforce the offer and the attention given to users in the municipal sports facilities” something that will be possible thanks to “the concentration of services by the sports instructors” in these public facilities and the outsourcing of the sports instructors at schools. “No service will be stopped and, in addition, we will improve the working conditions of our workers,” said Jordá, who has criticized the “lack of seriousness of the PSOE political party in this matter.”

Thus, the councillor responded to the criticisms made this Monday by the municipal opposition in a statement in which they accused the local government of “cutting public services” and of “destructive Human Resources policy.” “Precisely, what the municipal government has done is the complete opposite of what the opposition accuses us of,” Javier Jordá said, going on to explain that this procedure of outsourcing sports instructors in schools “will bring changes, but also many advantages, both in the workplace and in terms of the provision of services.”

According to the councillor, the procedure of outsourcing sports instructors will make it easier “for us to adapt to the needs of each school when it comes to organising activities and sports games,” an issue that in recent years “had become more complex due to the implementation of continuous working days in most schools and the difficulties in making schedules compatible” and which now “will be able to be managed practically at the discretion of each of the 14 schools.” He also recalled that in 2017, “with the Botànic government of Ximo Puig, the Ministry prohibited municipal sports instructors from accessing the centres during school hours, so if any type of service has been reduced it has not been by the will of the government of Toni Pérez but by the demands imposed by PSOE and Compromís”.

Regarding working conditions, Javier Jordá explained that the City Council “concluded on December 31 a stabilization process to reinforce the job security of these sports instructors, who have been able to obtain a permanent position as municipal officials after 15 years of service as non-official personnel”. He also pointed out that, also in terms of work, “the instructors will no longer have different work centres and travel from one place to another during their working day, so they also gain in comfort and security”.

Finally, the head of Sports has pointed out that these sports instructors “will now focus all their activity on Palau d’Esports l’Illa de Benidorm and Ciudad Deportiva ‘Guillermo Amor’, which will allow us to offer a better service to the more than 60 children from the municipal sports schools and also to the users of other sports services, such as gymnastics, swimming, maintenance exercises, etc.”