Nexo Legal Abogados

Public employment law

Nexo Legal Abogados is a law firm based in A Coruña dedicated exclusively to public employment law. It caters to career civil servants, labor staff, statutory staff and non-permanent indefinite employees, whether permanent or temporary, in their relations with the public administration. The firm focuses on Galician regional and national legislation, with knowledge of Galicia’s Law 2/2015 on public employment, the Basic Statute of Public Employees and the Workers’ Statute.

Services for permanent staff

The firm advises and represents career civil servants in challenging administrative acts affecting their labor rights.

• Claims concerning professional category and grade, including wage differences.
• Challenges to transfer procedures, secondments and internal promotion processes.
• Non-objective performance evaluations.
• Leaves of absence, authorized leave and work–family balance.
• Mobility and assignment to posts or work units.
• Teleworking: advice on approval and conditions.
• Permanent incapacity: administrative procedure and evaluation of medical tests.
• Retirement and extensions of service.
• Disciplinary proceedings: challenge of sanctions and applications to suspend enforcement.

Temporary staff services

For temporary staff, the firm addresses issues such as:

• Recruitment pools and problems with call-ups.
• Irregular appointments and contracts.
• Recognition of career progression and grade.
• Length of service and wage supplements.
• Unlawful assignment of workers, transfers of undertakings, terminations and unfair or void dismissals.
• Claims for compensation for harm caused by the Administration.

Non-permanent indefinite employees (INF)

The firm pays particular attention to the status of non-permanent indefinite employees, ensuring the fulfillment of their rights, including termination only when the post is filled through the proper statutory procedure and protection against dismissal when the post is awarded in a merit-based selection procedure or internal promotion process. It also advises on compensation when the post is filled, which the firm compares with the 20 days’ pay available for objective dismissal.

Challenges to public-sector selection procedures

The firm analyzes and presents challenges in selection procedures, competitive examinations and combined merit-and-examination processes, internal promotion and transfer procedures when it considers that equal opportunities rights have been violated. Among the most common reasons to challenge are:

• Irregular or arbitrary rules or notices.
• Lack of transparency in evaluation criteria, scores or results.
• Errors in grading tests or poorly worded questions.
• Content outside the published syllabus.
• Application of subjective criteria or lack of evaluation of objective parameters.
• Failure to give reasons in the decisions of the selection process.
• Unequal or discriminatory treatment of certain candidates.
• Absence of appropriate communication and notifications.
• Publication of erroneous results.
• Absence of an independent selection board or conflicts of interest.
• Irregularities in the award of posts.
• Failure to meet deadlines in the completion of the process.

Location and contact

The office is based in the Plaza de Pontevedra, 6, 1º, in A Coruña. The contact numbers are (+34) 675 750 597 and (+34) 881 925 727. The email is contact@nexolegalabogados.es. It serves clients from all over Galicia and allows documents to be submitted without traveling to the office.

The firm can confirm current appointment arrangements and remote document submission.