The Central Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants (CSIF) is collaborating with the Italian law firm of Romolo Reboa and Roberta Verginelli in a complaint filed with the Ministry of Foreign AffairsEuropean Union and Cooperation in which they ask for the reinstatement of a worker from the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See, suffering from cancer, who was fired at the end of his leave.
According to CSIF in a statement published on its website, “the Civil Guard previously prevented him from returning to his jobafter completing his leave, by express order of those responsible for the Spanish representation without giving him any justifiable reason at that time.
The dismissed worker, representative of CSIF in the Single PLEX Committee before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, He is of Italian nationality and worked as an orderlyproviding assistance between the administrative sector and management.
CSIF points out that the salary at the Embassy was the only income that the worker received for a family unit of five peopleone of them with a degree of cognitive disability of 75%.
According to the union, it all began on August 4, when the dismissed worker ended his sick leave. That same day he notified the Embassy and the Ministry that he would return to his job on August 7, but that same day the Civil Guard prohibited him from accessing the interior of the building.