The Contentious-Administrative Court number 4 of Las Palmas has partially upheld the claim for payment of overtime worked in October 2019 by an Agent of the Local Police of Tías, as announced by the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants (CSIF).
As explained by the union, the events date back to November 2019, when the comptroller of the City Council of Tías issued a objection to the payment of overtime that had been carried out by the Local Police of Tías, during the months of October and November 2019, "understanding that those hours were part of their ordinary working day." This led the mayor of Tías to order by decree that these overtime hours not be paid.
"The non-payment of these overtime hours produced distrust and discomfort in the majority of the staff of the Local Police of Tías, even leading to the change of the calendar, schedule, shifts and working conditions of the Police for the year 2020 by Decree of the Mayor, currently pending judgment, in which the correction factors agreed at the negotiating table since 2015 were subtracted", motivating the union action of CSIF, through its legal services, being the majority union in the group of officials of the City Council of Tías", point out from the union organization.
In the aforementioned ruling, according to the CSIF, the judicial authority establishes that "it is after the objection of the Comptroller, when the administration, acting against its own interests, questions the way of setting the ordinary working day of the Local Police, and de facto, decides not to apply the approved calendar, to oppose the payment of bonuses for overtime that were expressly authorized, which is not acceptable."
In this regard, the union points out that, in its objection, the comptroller used terms such as ""fraud"" and ""perverse application"", which this ruling now dismisses, and that ""so undermined the professionalism of the Local Police of Tías."
This ruling, according to what is specified, is the first of a ""long list of claims"" filed by CSIF at the request of its members, in the claim for the payment of said overtime, whose trials are being held this month of May.
