Trade unionists from the Canary Islands have sent a statement in which they attack the new government group of the Cabildo for having appealed the ruling that forced a worker hired irregularly under the presidency of Pedro San Ginés to become permanent. In this case, the affected person chained more than 50 temporary contracts and several extensions in just over three years, most of them through a temporary employment agency.
The ruling, which was issued by the Social Court Number 3 of Arrecife, concluded that these contracts were made in fraud of law, stating that "temporary hiring was used not to cover a specific need of the staff, but structural needs of the company." In addition, it adds to another ruling that also forced a worker hired in similar circumstances to become permanent, and also to the rulings that could still arrive, because there are dozens of workers who have entered the Centers in recent years through temporary employment agencies.
Faced with this situation, which would force a large number of workers hired irregularly to become permanent, the current government group appealed that ruling to the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, which is what Trade Unionists of the Canary Islands is now criticizing.
"The PSOE behaves with the same insensitivity"
"The current government, led by the PSOE, has shown that it does not differ in anything from the previous island government, behaving and acting with the same insensitivity and dehumanization towards workers who are victims of job insecurity, lowering itself to the greed of the ETTs," says the union, which recalls that the Socialist Party's electoral commitment was to "put an end to hiring through temporary employment agencies due to the level of discretion they involve in hiring and the lack of equity they impose on those who are hired."
In addition, they denounce that "the ETTs, which in recent years have been increasing their volume of business thanks to the job insecurity promoted by the labor reform, act as authentic traffickers of desperate labor, in connivance with public institutions and politicians who are comfortable and indolent in the face of the suffering of thousands of workers who spend years with hundreds of chained and scandalously fraudulent contracts."
For this reason, it demands that the PSOE "fulfill its electoral promise of dispensing with the ETTs" and announces that they will continue "resorting to the Courts and the Labor Inspectorate to stop fraudulent hiring, without ruling out other protest actions."
