These officials are subject to the General Statutes on Public Servants for the purposes of appointment, career development and annual performance evaluation. Job descriptions are drawn up in accordance with the regulations in force at the Ministry of Labour. The job profiles necessary to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the officials working in the peripheral administrative units require legal and secretarial qualifications. Unit heads must be qualified lawyers since they appear before the courts of the Social and Civil Order. The use of information technologies for administering the Fund is well established.
All officials have available and use the necessary computer equipment.
The headquarters of the Fund's General Secretariat and the 52 peripheral administrative units are connected by a network and with the network of the Ministry of Labour, the Social Security Treasury and the National Employment Institute. By means of this system of networks, information is provided instantaneously. Thus, when collective redundancies are made by an enterprise, the employer files his decision with the Labour Directorate of the autonomous community concerned, which conveys this information to the Wage Guarantee Fund and to all the institutions concerned. Information is also simultaneously available regarding payments to the Fund of enterprises' assessed contributions, said payments being made at the same time as social security contributions. Thus, the Fund's administration is aware at all times of which enterprises are late with their payments and which have postponed the payment of their contributions.