Labor accuses the Generalitat Valenciana of prevarication for canceling sanctions on corporations after the injury | Economy | EUROtoday

The Ministry of Labor and Social Economy has transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office the annulment, by the Generalitat of Valencia, of a sequence of sanctioning procedures of the Provincial Labor Inspection of the Valencian Community associated to work after the dana, as reported this Friday by the division headed by Yolanda Díaz. By transferring these annulled sanctions to the general public ministry, Labor intends to analyze whether or not the Generalitat Valenciana has dedicated a criminal offense of administrative prevarication.

The Provincial Labor and Social Security Inspection of Valencia had imposed these sanctions for work accidents that occurred de facto or for severe dangers that occurred throughout the dana of October 29, 2024. According to Labor, these recordsdata confirmed the shortage of adoption, by the businesses, of the mandatory preventive measures to ensure the security and integrity of their staff, which prompted them to be subjected to severe threat conditions that, in one of many circumstances, materialized within the dying of a employee.

In reality, the second vice chairman of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, already introduced final December that her division would take the Prosecutor’s Office to the Generalitat Valenciana for annulling a particular Inspection sanction to a Temporary Business Union (UTE), which pressured the aforementioned worker who ended up dying to work.

The ministry has thought of that every one these recordsdata, together with that of the deceased, have been annulled by the Valencian labor authority “in a totally unjustified manner, consciously avoiding sanctions to the companies for the serious facts revealed by the acting inspectors, which is why we consider the decision to be revealed as arbitrary and possibly criminal.”

In November 2024, barely a month after the catastrophe, Labor reported that it had opened disciplinary proceedings towards 106 corporations for allegedly failing to adjust to laws on prevention and occupational dangers throughout the disaster and, particularly, for making staff go to work throughout an orange or purple alert in pressure because of meteorological phenomena such because the one which occurred in Valencia.

The Valencian Government has responded to the Labor initiative: “In the set of files related to the indicated facts, the Generalitat Valenciana confirmed the sanction proposed by the Inspection in six companies. That is, the Labor Authority analyzed the concurrent circumstances in each case and maintained those proposals that it considered in accordance with the law, leaving without effect those that were not considered in accordance with the law. This action demonstrates an individualized, technical evaluation based on strictly legal criteria.”

In some circumstances, continues the Valencian Executive, the labor authority appreciated the concurrence of circumstances linked to a unprecedented episode of pressure majeure, a component that legally excludes or limits administrative duty when the occasions happen in a context of unforeseeable emergency.

For this cause, it isn’t applicable to current the strange train of administrative powers “as an irregular or arbitrary action, nor to confuse sanction proposals with firm resolutions. Converting a legal debate typical of the administrative procedure into insinuations of a criminal nature means questioning the normal functioning of the labor inspection system and procedural guarantees.”

The Generalitat emphasizes that “all administrative resolutions adopted are duly motivated and subject, like any administrative act, to the control of the courts.” In any case, it ensures that it’s going to collaborate with any investigative motion that could be carried out, offering the mandatory documentation to show that the choices adjust to the authorized system.