Canary Islands withdraws the call for the Deputy Director of Employment

The General Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Tourism and Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands has agreed to withdraw the public call for the provision, via the free appointment procedure, of job position no. 25254, titled Deputy Director of Employment, assigned to the Canarian Employment Service. The decision, adopted by Resolution on August 25, 2026, is published in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (Boletín Oficial de Canarias) no. 176, of September 2, 2026 (pages 33798 to 33800).

The annulment leaves a key management position in the archipelago’s employment policies suspended, as the definitive filling of a post whose organic structure and functions are being reviewed within the framework of an ongoing regulatory reform is paralyzed.

An organic reform in progress

The withdrawn call had been made through Resolution no. 228, of July 31, 2026, from the General Technical Secretariat itself, published in the BOC no. 162, of August 13, 2026. The withdrawal is based on the proposal issued by the Canarian Employment Service on August 24, 2026, which invokes the processing of the Draft Decree for the partial modification of Decree 118/2004, of July 29, which approves the organic and operational structure of the aforementioned service.

According to the proposal, the reform “reviews the position and functions of the executive bodies of the Canarian Employment Service,” adapting its organizational design to the accumulated management experience and to new priorities regarding employment, training, and social economy. The redefinition directly affects the organizational unit in which position no. 25254 is integrated, therefore completing its definitive provision now would be “inappropriate and premature.”

Legal framework of the withdrawal

The resolution is based on articles 84 and 93 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (LPAC), which allow the Administration to withdraw from procedures initiated ex officio with due justification. It also invokes the doctrine of the Supreme Court contained in the Judgment of July 16, 1982, according to which the mere submission of an application does not create a right, but a simple expectation, such that the general interest prevails.

The resolution, which exhausts the administrative route, admits the following appeals:

• Optional appeal for reversal (recurso potestativo de reposición), before the General Technical Secretariat, within a period of one month.
• Contentious-administrative appeal, within a period of two months from the day following its publication.

Signature and scope

The document, dated Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on August 25, 2026, is signed by the Technical General Secretary, Francisco Hernández Padilla, at the proposal of the General Secretariat of the Canarian Employment Service.

With this decision, the Canarian Administration chooses to wait for the approval of the modification of Decree 118/2004 to align the filling of the position from the outset with the new organizational structure and the distribution of functions to be established by regulation. For readers, the news implies that the management of active employment policies in the archipelago will remain in a provisional status until the organic reform is completed, a process that will condition the design of public employment services in the Canary Islands in the coming months.

Source: Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, no. 176, of September 2, 2026, II. Authorities and personnel, Oppositions and competitions, pages 33798-33800 (official reference: Resolution of August 25, 2026, Technical General Secretariat of the Ministry of Tourism and Employment).