Lloret de Mar Local Police officers represented by CSIF and SIP-FEPOL stopped working overtime indefinitely on Friday, 27 March, amid a dispute over the Ajuntament's employment agreement, which unions say has been expired since 2012.

The action may reduce staffing flexibility for residents and visitors at busy periods. The dispute comes as unions press the Ajuntament, Lloret de Mar's town council, to set a timetable for negotiating a replacement agreement covering municipal staff.

"We have tried to do everything on our side, even more than is our responsibility, to facilitate negotiations between the parties, but even so we have received neither a response nor any proposal to our demands," the unions said in a joint statement reported by Diari de Girona.

Unions seek pay review and negotiating timetable

CSIF, CSC-Intersindical, SIP-FEPOL, UGT and USOC said the municipal government had not convened either the police sectoral negotiating table or the commission responsible for renewing the agreement, despite requests made over recent years.

The unions said employees had lost more than 20% of their purchasing power since 2010 and called for a pay review. They described the continued use of working conditions approved 18 years ago as unsustainable.

  • Local Police officers represented by CSIF and SIP-FEPOL have suspended overtime indefinitely.
  • Maintenance staff said they would not undertake on-call duties during May.
  • The unions said the measures would continue until a negotiating timetable is established.

Staffing concerns during the tourist season

The wider dispute affects Lloret de Mar municipal employees, although Local Police have been the most visible group in the protest. The agreement dates from 2009 and expired in 2012, according to Nova Ràdio Lloret.

Gabriel Romero, representing SIP-FEPOL, said the union's main concern was public safety because the tourist season had begun. Óscar García of CSIF said that, during Sant Joan, staffing had fallen well below what was required and that one complex intervention could leave only one patrol available for all other calls.

The unions said they would hold a workers' assembly in the coming days to discuss the dispute and consider extending the protest measures.

Reported by Source Text Link, Eva Batlle, Maria Joancomartí, Carme Vilà, GIRONA NOTÍCIES, Redacció, Marc Estarriola, ACN, Redacció, Joel Lozano, gironanoticies.com, Thelma Castro, lloret.cat, Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN), Lloret Gaceta.