The Justice has already issued the first ruling siding with one of the workers fired from Canal Gestión, according to the general secretary of UGT in Lanzarote, César Reyes. "The judge recognizes the impropriety of the first dismissal, in addition to the fraudulent hiring, giving the company a good review," he stated on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
Precisely, the workers of Canal Gestión have carried out a new protest concentration this Thursday, this time at the company's central offices in Las Caletas. "A protest that above all fills us with reasons for this first sentence," pointed out César Reyes, who hopes that the company will "take into consideration" this judicial decision and carry out "what the Labor Inspectorate already said at the time, which is none other than changing the contract model and making the 69 workers permanent."
However, according to the ruling, the company is not obliged to reinstate the worker, who in this case was fired in July, according to Reyes. "It can compensate, appeal, or incorporate the worker," explained the general secretary of UGT, adding that the company has "until today" to make a decision in this regard.
What Reyes hopes for, in any case, is that there will be no discrimination on the part of the company, that is, that it decides to incorporate some employees and not others. "We understand that a Human Resources plan must be made to guarantee an optimal service to the citizens, which involves sitting at a negotiating table with the contracts already transformed and seeing what needs have to continue to be covered and which ones do not, but treating all workers who have been hired fraudulently equally," said the general secretary of UGT, who pointed out that he believes "seven workers have already been fired."
For César Reyes, with the indefinite strike that the workers carried out on October 16, "it was proven" that "the staff is necessary" and that is "what they wanted to demonstrate." "They were calling workers who were on vacation for the minimum services, to cover the workers who had been fired," said the general secretary of UGT, who pointed out that if it was decided that the strike would only be 24 hours, it was because continuing with it "was going to harm the workers and the citizens."