Coalición Canaria (CC) Tías denounces the extreme seriousness of the facts contained in Mayor's Decree 2026/2181, regarding the claim of a worker who allegedly continued to provide operational services in the municipal Social Services departments after his temporary contract ended.
In this regard, CC Tías demands that the PSOE mayor, José Juan Cruz, and the councilor responsible for the aforementioned area explain what controls allowed this situation and who was aware of it.
“The socialists have allowed a person out of work to be paid covertly from municipal coffers and to occupy a public office daily,” denounces the spokesperson for the Canarian nationalist party, Amado Vizcaíno.
He adds that the aforementioned file “acknowledges that, after his contract ended on August 7, 2023, he continued to attend the Elderly Area and perform operational tasks under municipal direction, coordination, and supervision. Pretending to reduce all of this to voluntary collaboration demonstrates the absolute lack of control of the socialist government group.”
Vizcaíno considers it particularly worrying that the affected person also provided services through the Social, Educational, Cultural, and Ideological Association Women of Before and Now, an entity that hired him for two periods and assigned him to Social Services to perform the same functions.
Public money
Therefore, CC Tías demands to know how much public money this association received between 2023 and 2026, what controls were applied to its projects, and whether its reports include the schedules, functions, and sign-in sheets of personnel financed with municipal funds.
“We are facing facts that present very serious indications of a possible illegal assignment of workers and that could end up causing the payment of salary differences, contributions, and compensation with the money of all the neighbors,” warns Vizcaíno.
The nationalist spokesperson criticizes that the municipal government dismisses this possibility through internal reports, despite admitting that the worker performed the same functions, in municipal facilities, and under the direct supervision of City Council staff and officials.
"Workplace harassment"
CC Tías also denounces that the file includes an express accusation of job function stripping and workplace harassment, but that the Mayor's Office limited itself to gathering reports from the departments and from the employee herself who was pointed out.
“They have also looked the other way regarding an explicit complaint of workplace harassment in the Social Welfare Area, the third that we are officially aware of,” states Vizcaíno, who demands to know if the municipal protocol for preventing harassment was activated and if an independent investigation was opened.
The Canary nationalist party has registered a battery of questions for the mayor to clarify who authorized or tolerated the daily presence of the worker in a municipal office without a contract and collecting unemployment benefits, what controls exist over access to municipal facilities and tools, how many harassment complaints have been registered during the term, and what legal and economic contingency plan the City Council has if the courts declare the existence of an employment relationship or illegal assignment.
“The PSOE must abandon its silence, assume responsibility, and explain why it has exposed the Tías City Council to a labor, legal, and patrimonial risk of this magnitude,” concludes Amado Vizcaíno.
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