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The Information .com / MADRID, 29 (EUROPA PRESS)
The government has decided to reduce prison sentences both to hinder or impede exercise to strike their workers, as pickets, which still are subject to harsher punishments, as reflected in one of the amendments that the PP has submitted the draft reform of the Penal Code which includes Europe Press .
The proposed amendment refers to the controversial Article 315 of the Penal Code, included in the chapter on offenses against the rights of workers and includes penalties for both those who celebrate prevent a strike and for those force others to second it.
Thus, the proposal of the ‘popular’, justified as “technical improvement” is to reduce prison sentences for those who “through deception or abuse situation or limitaren it impossible to exercise freedom of association and the right to strike “Cradle of six months to three and a half years now, a new section of between six months and two years need.
On the other hand, the amounts of fines for this behavior are maintained, but is incompatible apply both punishments, so the judge must choose between pecuniary sanction or sent to jail who prevents or hinders the exercise of strike.
AGGRAVATED PUNISHMENT.
However, the PP also introduces changes in relation to severe penalties, no longer apply when the impediments to strike carried out with “force, violence or intimidation” but only when it is shown that there has been “coercion”.
In these cases, the punishment of imprisonment may be reduced from the current three and four and a half years in prison for between 21 months and three years, while fines are raised from twelve to 18 months 18 to 24 months. In this case you must choose one of the two modes of punishment, or a fine or imprisonment.
These same penalties shall be applicable to the picket lines, in groups or individually, to coerce others to initiate or continue a strike. However, despite the reduction, employees or members to look at this situation continue to be subject to higher penalties than those who may suffer prevent the exercise to strike.
In fact, this situation has led several formations of Congress –among including the PSOE, the Plural Left (IU-ICV-CHA) and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG) – to require several parliamentary initiatives abolishing the article that can be punished with imprisonment for informational picketing, proposals to date have failed to succeed because of the absolute majority of the PP.
(EuropaPress)
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