There is no turning back and the Association of municipalities of the Island will have to grant again the ten taxi licenses that it granted last March 2002, since the agreement that granted them has been annulled. The Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has declared this Wednesday final the judgment favorable to the appeal filed by an individual who was denied authorization for not meeting, according to the granting body, a sufficient seniority to receive it.
That is, the agreement by which ten licenses were granted, six ordinary and four to special vehicles, is annulled and the Association will have to re-evaluate the seniority of the participants, with the exception of four workers who will maintain the computation. And it is that in addition to being a taxi employee and working exclusively, you can apply for the license by seniority as a taxi driver. In this case, the individual who filed the appeal understood that the criteria used to compute his seniority were not correct.
The plaintiff stated the need to value in his seniority the periods in which he was unemployed and part-time, since it was not by will "but because the market did not offer that possibility", but that even so his dedication has been equally "exclusive". The Court has upheld this assessment and now asks that the working life of the participants be recomputed.
In addition to this appeal, there is another against the same agreement and also presented by an individual, which has been seen for judgment after it was assessed by the same Chamber, so it is foreseeable that the established criterion will be maintained for this resolution.
Legal precedent
Recently, the Taxi Cooperative San Marcial appealed another ten licenses granted in Arrecife because it understood that a prior study of needs had not been carried out to grant this number of licenses. In addition, supported by this favorable judgment, they believe that it can serve as a precedent for reconsidering the licenses granted by the Association.
And according to José Ramón Parrilla, director of the Cooperative, the Association should not have delivered more licenses since there was a judgment that forced it to review the previous ones. "What they have done is worsen the problem", says Parrilla.