The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency publishes a Catalogue of risks concerning labor personnel in the Valencian public sector

Press release

Valencia, October 3, 2025. – The Agency for the Prevention and Fight against Fraud and Corruption of the Valencian Community (AVAF) has drawn up the Catalogue of risks concerning labor personnel in the Valencian public sector, a document that becomes a key tool to minimize the risks of irregular management, fraud, and corruption in public administration.

 

The new catalogue arises in response to a particularly relevant fact: 40% of the complaints received by AVAF in 2024 were related to personnel management, many of them linked to recruitment and selection systems, which calls for an urgent response from public authorities.

 

The study highlights risks and practices that undermine the principles of equality, merit, and ability, such as:

  • Hiring of labor personnel without the university degree required for access, promotion, or filling of job positions.
  • Recruitment processes limited to interviews or subjective curriculum evaluations, breaching the principles of merit and ability.
  • Use of labor positions as a mechanism for consolidating temporary or non-permanent staff.
  • Inclusion of labor positions in subgroup A1 with managerial functions or the exercise of public powers, contrary to the Spanish Constitution, the Consolidated Text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees (TREBEP), and case law.

 

These dynamics, AVAF warns, foster clientelism, the political instrumentalization of job structures, and the de-professionalization of civil service, thereby weakening the legitimacy of public administration before citizens.

 

The catalogue not only identifies risks but also aims to provide Valencian public institutions with a reference framework to strengthen the professionalization of their human resources, ensure transparent recruitment processes, and safeguard institutional integrity.

 

AVAF stresses that positions involving public powers (inspection, control, sanctioning, auditing, or authorization) must be reserved for civil servants, since assigning them to labor personnel constitutes a violation of the Spanish Constitution and TREBEP.

Catalog Executive Summary

The UNED is committed to integrity training for its staff together with the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency

Courses

Valencia, setember 30, 2025.- The strategies for an integral public institution have been the focus of the conferences aimed at the technical, management and administration and services staff (PTGAS) of the National University of Distance Education (UNED) given by the Training Area of the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF).

 

The initiative, organised by the UNED PTGAS Training Service and the AVAF, seeks to raise awareness of institutional integrity systems, offer practical tools to anticipate and manage risks in public management, approach the obligations established by Law 2/2023 and the prevention of conflicts of interest.

 

More than 65 UNED professionals have actively participated in this training, which also allowed questions to be raised and experiences to be shared on current challenges in public management

 

With this first training collaboration, the UNED and the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency join forces in the commitment to the promotion of integrity, understood as an investment in the present and future, which ensures that knowledge and public resources are managed responsibly and for the benefit of society.

 

If you would like to have specialised training in your public administration in the field of integrity and corruption prevention, do not hesitate to write to formacion@antifraucv.es