¿Quién es responsable de las deudas en favor de los trabajadores originadas antes del traspaso del servicio educativo: El servicio local de educación pública o el antiguo sostenedor municipal?

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how labor courts and administrative jurisprudence have interpreted the status of Local Public Education Services as legal successors to former municipal education employers, within the context of the transfer of educational services to the former. To achieve this, the reasons and regulatory framework governing the process of transferring the administration of public educational services from municipalities and municipal corporations to the Local Public Education Services are briefly reviewed. Subsequently, based on the previous analysis, the scope and limits of the idea of «legal successor» of the Local Public Education Services in relation to the municipal education providers are defined. Following this, a series of rulings adopted by the labor courts, as well as administrative jurisprudence, are described and reviewed. In these pronouncements, the discussion has focused on which entity is responsible for debts owed to education workers that were generated or originated from events prior to the transfer of the educational service, with the goal of identifying whether there is any type of jurisprudential trend in these cases.