A judge reverses the decision of the city Council of Badalona open the 12-Or – Investing.com Spain

MADRID (Reuters) – A judge has suspended the Tuesday confiscate the intention of the city Council of Badalona open their offices on October 12, the day of the national holiday of Spain.

The town Hall of this Catalan town decided to allow it to open the doors of the town Hall to give the option to their employees to go voluntarily to his job that day after reaching an agreement with the trade unions.

however, the judge of the dispute tribunal of Barcelona considers that this measure is a detriment to the city employees of Badalona, where the 12th October was still a holiday for the rest of the workers of the town.

“The fixation, in this case by Law, of a particular day as a national holiday (…) due to social and cultural reasons, which reflect a general interest, social or collective in their celebration,” said the judge in his car.

“In the event that will take effect the decision of the city Council of Badalona this interest would be harmed irreparably”, he added.

The mayor of Badalona, Dolors Sabater, said the day before in an interview on Onda Cero that the decision was based on that this holiday has no roots in Badalona, and that on the 12th of October, the day on which it considers that there was first contact between Europe and America with the arrival of Columbus in 1492, has connotations of “colonialism” and “ethnic genocide”.

Sabater added that the decision of the city Council was not a “question of identity”, in a context of tense relations between the Spanish institutions and Catalan demands for independence from the Spanish State of the part of the catalans.

The judge has also considered that this decision of the city Council puts in jeopardy the right of their workers to not manifest itself ideologically, and, therefore, violates their freedom.

“There is a clear risk that the administrative action contested, if indirectly, compel public employees to significarse, in one sense or another, in relation with the festivity of 12 October,” said the car.

Sabater became mayor of Badalona in the last local elections with the votes of Guanyem Badalona in Common, PSC, ERC, ICV-EUiA and CDC, which enabled it to oust the popular Xavier García Albiol in the City despite their victory in municipal elections.

Against this temporary suspension ordered by the judge, who asked the delegate of the Government in Barcelona, no appeal.

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