A Judge has found the Town Hall guilty of contravening the constitutional rights of a worker when it fired him for asking to be paid what he considered to be a just amount. The dining-hall scene from Oliver Twist comes to mind… What! More?

It was at the end of last year when the employee found himself on the outside of the Town Hall, looking in, so he decided to take the Town Hall to court. Six months later, a female judge in Motril ruled that the dismissed worker had to be reinstated, as well as paying him the salary arrears accrued since his dismissal.

This isn’t the first time that the Town Hall has been ordered to reinstate an unfairly dismissed worker, but it might be the last for a while.

The Town Hall, in an effort to defend itself, claimed that he wasn’t technically employed, but an Inspector’s report pointed out irrespective of what the written and signed agreement contained, the said worker had been at the total disposition of the Town Hall; i.e., clocking in and knocking up working hours, carrying out his allotted tasks in an office, together with all the necessary material and tools provided by the Town Hall.

Will the Town Hall appeal against this decision? Of course they will, because the lawyer fees and court costs don’t come out of their pockets, but out of ours.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)