As 'ElConstitucional.es' exclusively reveals this Monday, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has put the regional administration she presides over in a serious judicial confrontation after the dismissal of twenty-four indefinite non-permanent labor technicians. As this newspaper has been able to confirm through the affected parties themselves -who have the support of several legal teams-, the measure violates European regulations on the abuse of temporality in public employment.
Specifically, the workers, with nearly three decades of service behind them and who currently depended on the Ministry of Employment, Economy and Finance of the CAM, have filed lawsuits in different courts in Madrid against the Community. The majority of those dismissed are -to greater scandal- women over 50 years old, an especially vulnerable group that denounces having been dismissed without being offered an alternative of stability or job continuity.
As we reported in the exclusive published by this newspaper, one of the affected workers assures that they conveyed their situation to the cabinet of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, before the resolution of the selective process. The response, they state, was that "they should apply for the public examinations", a path that, precisely, Europe considers ineffective as a protective measure against the abuse of temporary employment in the Administration. Not only that. The same workers denounce that “there has been silence and concealment, despite the fact that we have continued working with absolute professionalism for years”.
In other words, the community chaired by Ayuso opted for dismissal as a solution, instead of applying labor stabilization mechanisms that have been implemented in other public administrations in Spain.
As if that weren't enough, the twenty-four dismissed technicians were responsible for a key function for the Community of Madrid: the settlement of autonomous taxes derived from operations such as sales, inheritances, donations, or mortgages. They also provided direct attention to the taxpayer from the offices located in the capital.
As expected and according to the testimonies of those affected gathered by this newspaper, the impact of the dismissal has been immediate: from about 200 daily appointments, activity has dropped to a minimum, with part of the service diverted to municipal liquidation offices managed by property registrars on a self-employed basis.
The conclusion is as evident as it is clear: the Community of Madrid, presided over by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, dismisses a vulnerable group -due to their age- contravening Europe's criteria, putting the regional government in a judicial problem and the 'party', that is, the workers' indemnities, eventual sanctions and legal costs, have to be paid by Madrid taxpayers. And that's not all. The essential service, far from improving after the dismissals, has been reduced to a minimum due to the resulting lack of personnel.
