A total of 3,712 positions will receive these new allowances.

The bases have also been established for the singular component of hardship, dangerousness and toxicity, which will amount to 220,000 euros per academic year.

The President of the Government of the Balearic Islands, Margalida Prohens, today presided over the signing of the agreement of the Sectoral Education Committee on the island of Eivissa, which established the bases for the supplement for posts that are difficult and very difficult to fill for teaching staff in the Balearic Islands. In addition, the principles of the singular component of hardship, dangerousness or toxicity have also been established.

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Prohens announces more than 18 million euros earmarked for the difficult and very difficult-to-fill post allowance for civil servant teachers

The Government of the Balearic Islands will allocate more than 18,380,000 euros to cover these new allowances, which will mean that 3,712.5 teaching posts will benefit, and which will be applied from 1 September 2024. Specifically, in the 2024-2025 academic year, almost 4 million euros will be earmarked for this measure. The regional government is making a significant economic effort to strengthen the teaching staff on the islands that suffer most from problems of access to housing, and also to recognise the teaching work of civil servants who perform their duties under special conditions of hardship, toxicity or danger. ‘With this agreement, we are providing an important tool to cover staffing levels and guarantee service to the children of Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera. Obviously, we will continue working to provide solutions to the housing problems on the islands, and unfortunately in an intense way in the Pitiüses’.

Thus, the agreements signed today on the island of Eivissa by President Margalida Prohens, Education and Universities Councillor Antoni Vera, DG of Teaching Staff and Subsidised Centres Ismael Alonso, and representatives of STEI-intrinsical, ANPE, UGT, CCOO and UOB, which are part of the Sectoral Education Committee, will go to the Consell de Govern in the coming weeks for ratification.

By agreement of the Consell de Govern and for each school year, will be determined, for each of the islands of Menorca, Eivissa and Formentera, the positions of difficult and very difficult to cover, in addition to the jobs of a unique nature in which teachers perform their duties under special conditions of danger, hardship or toxicity in all the Balearic Islands. The allowances that are difficult and very difficult to fill are mutually exclusive. In the event that a teaching staff member is entitled to receive both allowances, he/she shall receive the higher amount.

Very difficult coverage

They considered it very difficult to cover all positions that have as their main centre an educational centre located on the island of Formentera. Also, the positions of Menorca or Ibiza are occupied by an interim teaching official who teaches directly in early childhood education, primary education, compulsory secondary education, high school, vocational training or special education and whose main function is a speciality difficult to cover or that the position has been offered in the processes of allocation of substitutions of interim civil servants carried out during 14 calendar days and has not been covered.

Thus, the allowance for places that are very difficult to fill will be paid in twelve monthly instalments. For the academic year 2024/2025 the amount is set at 300 € and for the academic year 2025/2026 it will be 400 €.

For this academic year 2024/2025, it is expected that in Formentera there will be 167 positions of very difficult to cover, with an investment of approximately one million euros. As for the island of Menorca, 41 very difficult-to-fill positions are planned, with an investment of approximately €260,000. As for the island of Ibiza, 276 places of very difficult coverage are foreseen, with an investment of 1,900,000 euros, including social security costs.

Difficult to cover

The document signed today establishes that a place will be declared difficult to cover if it has as its main centre an educational centre located on the islands of Menorca or Eivissa.

The amounts of the difficult-to-cover supplement, which will be paid in twelve monthly instalments, on the island of Menorca are set at 100 euros for the 2025/2026 academic year and 200 euros from the 2026/2027 academic year onwards. As for Eivissa, the supplement is set at 200 € for the academic year 2025/2026 and 300 € for the academic year 2026/2027.

In total, it is expected that for this academic year 2024/2025 there will be 3,495 places that are difficult to fill. 2,085 on the island of Eivissa and 1,410 on the island of Menorca. The Govern de les Illes Balears will allocate 9 million euros to the island of Eivissa and 6 million euros to Menorca for the 2024/2025 academic year.

Harshness, dangerousness or toxicity

To determine which jobs are classified as difficult, dangerous or toxic, it will be taken into account whether the teaching work is carried out with students with judicial measures affected by deprivation of liberty, with students in foster care programmes or with child protection measures, or with students admitted for health reasons to hospitals or convalescing in private homes for more than 30 days.

For the 2024/2025 academic year, the document signed today states that all jobs at the following centres will be classified as dangerous, arduous or toxic: IES Can Balo, CEPA Amanecer, Aula Eivissa, Aula Maó, Unidad Docente Externa Es Puig des Bous, Unidad Docente Externa Tramuntana, Colegio para la Atención Hospitalaria y Domiciliaria Maria Antònia Pasqual, SAED Menorca and SAED Eivissa-Formentera.

The amount of each monthly payment of this supplement will be 250 € for the academic year 2024/2025 and 300 € from the academic year 2025/2026. This component will be paid in fourteen monthly payments.

In total, for this academic year 2024/2025, there will be a total of 50.5 places that will receive the supplement of hardship, dangerousness or toxicity in the Balearic Islands, which will involve an investment of about 220,000 € including social security costs. These positions are distributed in 44.5 on the island of Mallorca, 3 in Menorca and 3 in Eivissa.

In addition, the signatory parties have agreed that from September 2026 they will renegotiate with the social partners the amounts of all the allowances agreed today at the Sectoral Education Committee.