August does not count in Labor Opposition 2025: what changes in your deadlines

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If you are preparing for the opposition to the Senior Corps of Labor and Social Security Inspectors, the Corps of Labor Sub-inspectors (Employment and Social Security Scale) or the Scale of Senior Graduates of INSHT, there is one date you must keep in mind: August 2026 does not count.

The Under-secretariat of Labor and Social Economy has published a resolution, dated July 13, 2026 and effective from July 20, 2026, declaring August 2026 non-working for the purpose of calculating deadlines in the three selective processes corresponding to the Public Employment Offer of 2025. The measure is based on the practical difficulties involved in meeting administrative deadlines in August and on the General Admission Regulation approved by Royal Decree 364/1995.

What does this regulation establish?

The resolution declares August 2026 non-working exclusively for the purpose of calculating deadlines in the following selective processes:

In practice, this means that any deadline running during August is suspended from August 1 to August 31, resuming on September 1, 2026 as if August had not existed. This is not an automatic extension of deadlines, but rather an exclusion of the month from the calculation.

The resolution exhausts the administrative remedy. If a candidate or interested party wishes to challenge it, they have one month to file a reconsideration appeal or two months to resort to administrative litigation, both counted from its publication on July 20, 2026.

Economic and operational impact

This resolution has no direct economic impact in terms of costs or penalties for companies. Its impact is operational and deadline management for candidates and for the rating courts that manage these processes.

The specific risks of not taking this non-working declaration into account are:

• Submitting documentation outside the deadline by not having discounted August from the calculation, which may result in exclusion from the selective process.
• Miscalculating the date of an exercise or test if the court sets notification deadlines that cross August.
• Losing the right to appeal the resolution by not correctly calculating the one-month deadline (reconsideration) or two-month deadline (administrative litigation) from July 20, 2026.

For rating courts and the administration, the measure simplifies management by preventing deadlines from expiring in a month when administrative activity is minimal.

Who does it affect?

• Candidates for the Senior Corps of Labor and Social Security Inspectors (OEP 2025).
• Candidates for the Corps of Labor Sub-inspectors, Employment and Social Security Scale (OEP 2025).
• Candidates for the Scale of Senior Graduates of INSHT (OEP 2025).
• Rating courts of these three selective processes.
• Advisors and opposition preparation instructors who manage their students' deadlines in these bodies.

It does not affect other selective processes at the Ministry of Labor or opposition processes in other administrations. The non-working declaration is specific to these three bodies and OEP 2025.

Practical example

Suppose a court of the Senior Corps of Labor Inspectors notifies a candidate of the result of an exercise on July 25, 2026, granting them a deadline of 15 working days to submit objections.

Without the non-working declaration, the deadline would expire approximately on August 15, 2026. With the non-working declaration, August is excluded from the calculation: the 5 working days remaining in July (26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 July) are counted, and the remaining 10 working days resume on September 1, which shifts the deadline expiration to mid-September 2026.

The most common mistake would be to submit objections in August believing the deadline has already expired, or not to submit them in September believing it is too late. The key: August neither adds nor subtracts days from the deadline.

What should candidates do now?

1. Review all active deadlines in your selective process (Inspectors, Sub-inspectors or INSHT) and recalculate them excluding August 2026.
2. Identify if you have any deadline expiring in August: if so, that deadline is automatically moved to September, adding the working days of August that remain.
3. Consult court notifications to verify that the communicated deadlines already incorporate August's non-working status, or if you need to apply it yourself.
4. Note the appeal deadlines: if you want to challenge this resolution, you have until August 20, 2026 for the reconsideration appeal (although August is non-working for selective processes, administrative appeal deadlines are governed by their own rules — consult with a professional) or until September 20, 2026 for administrative litigation.
5. Communicate this information to your instructor or academy if they manage your deadlines, to avoid calculation errors that could cost you exclusion from the process.

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Notice: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. For specific decisions, consult a qualified professional. Source: https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2026-15780