The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) has condemned the Community of Madrid chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso to compensate each of the 119 trackers with 500 euros to whom it gave “inconsiderate treatment” when it was forced to readmit them on last year, since they were forced to spend “all day with nothing to do and no chance to work” until they were fired.
As summarized by the union in a statement, the workers suffered this mistreatment in retaliation for having denounced their previous dismissal in October 2022, which they considered irregular, in a court case that they won and that forced the Community to reinstate them.
The car, to which Efe has had access, states that the Ministry of Health located the workers on a ground floor where they do not have jobs and where there were tables, chairs and other items stored; and they were not given material until several years later, including “offline computers.”
The order also considers proven that “he did not give them work or any order or explanation”, and “they were not allowed to go up to other floors or communicate with the colleagues who were in them.”
Thus, CCOO denounces that they were “confined” in a space “without material means” to provide services, without assigned tasks and “without offering them an explanation or allowing them to communicate with other workers”, in what they consider “vexatious treatment”.
And the union adds that this situation “could have been avoided with paid leave while the termination that subsequently occurred” was being processed, avoiding this “arbitrary and unnecessarily” situation that, in its opinion, sought to “mortify the plaintiffs.”
Now the CCOO intends to appeal this ruling because, although it does oblige workers to be compensated, it does not recognize the existence of a violation of fundamental rights, something that the union defends.
On the other hand, the union organization also condemns that the General Directorate of Public Health currently continues to “mistreat” other workers under its charge, in this case, those who are in charge of the public health technical units, which deal with the prevention and inspection of food safety or water quality.
The CCOO criticizes that the Ministry wants to remove them from their areas of action and “centralize in a single point”, before which they ask that the current organization be maintained, similar to the one that exists in the health field, with five areas that correspond to the cardinal points and center, to “guarantee proximity to the territory” and “control and guarantee quality public health”.
