The Basic Statute for Public Employees: the Powers of the Autonomous Governments

This paper studies the powers of the governments of the autonomous regions with respect to public employment, in particular, 1) the powers taken on by Catalonia as a result of the statutory reforms of recent years, and 2) the impact on these powers of the constitutional case law that has developed as a result of the challenges to the constitutionality of the new Statute of Autonomy.