The Vatican's “Romeo and Juliet”: two workers threatened with dismissal for getting married get married | EUROtoday

Two workers of the Vatican Bank are liable to being fired for getting married attributable to a brand new company rule that expressly prohibits the hiring of two spouses. The couple obtained married on Saturday, in response to native media reviews. The Messenger, so he may lose his job inside a month if an answer will not be reached earlier than then.

The Association of Lay Employees of the Vatican (ADLV) revealed on Wednesday that it has tried mediate with out success, So far, within the case of two officers of the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), often called the Vatican Bank.

“As an association that represents the demands of its almost 600 memberswe have tried to mediate with the IOR, we have provided arguments to highlight how the Birth of a new family cannot be compromised by bureaucratic regulations, we have consulted experts in canon lawbut it has been of no use,” the group says.

The ADVL explains in an announcement that what resulted from its makes an attempt was a “cold communication that referred to a regulation, which in fact has retroactive effects, given that our two colleagues had already date setand the wedding venue when the new regulations came out.”

The group assures that it has been “working for three years to establish a center in the Vatican as well.” labor regulation that takes into consideration the respectable aspirations of individuals and strengthens our sense of group.”

“With everybody's assist we are going to proceed to behave, we are going to strengthen ourselves as the specified group Saint John Paul IIin order that the ADVL is an actor of session in all workplaces,” he concludes.

Los two young people employees They got married last Saturday in a parish on the Roman coast with a small group of friends and family, he has revealed in the last few hours The Messenger.

The norm

In practice, the termination of the employment contract is provided for after 30 days after the celebration of the marriage, unless one of the two spouses decides voluntarily resign to employment.

Los “Romeo and Juliet from past the Tiber had the braveness to problem energy and, above all, the unusual regulation “just published by the IOR,” says the Roman newspaper, which delivered to gentle the scenario of those two Vatican workers final July.

Since then, the difficulty has “inflated, bouncing around various curial tables, analyzed by prelates and jurists but without any possible solution,” in response to the supply, who emphasizes that “for the two young men the only existing possibility to try to keep their jobs would be a direct intervention by the pontiff“.

The newlyweds have already been suspended for a couple of days after her story was made identified by the IOR, which acknowledged in an announcement that its goal “is exclusively to guarantee conditions of equal treatment among staff.”