The great purge of RTVE

A Court in Madrid has declared this Tuesday to void the cessation of Alvaro Zancajo as director of Canal 24 horas and ordered to RTVE that will replace its previous working conditions and compensation with 25.784, € 32, “for the damages caused”.

The journalist announced on Twitter the ruling of the judgment, in which the court declares null and void the decision adopted by RTVE in August, when the new team of informative radio and television public ceased to Zancajo.

RTVE has been convicted “to replace the plaintiff in his previous terms of employment with immediate character”.

RTVE for its part, reported Tuesday that it has notified the judgment of the Court of the Social esteem in part the complaint in dispute of substantial change brought by the worker Alvaro Zancajo Fenoll and considered null and void his removal as a director of the Channel 24 hours, to attend “the objective fact that the worker was welcomed to a reduction of the working day” of one-eighth, requested the June 25, 2018.

As reported by RTVE in a statement, the judgment dismisses the remainder of the allegations of Alvaro Zancajo and considers that the measure adopted by RTVE, does not violate the guarantee of indemnification of the worker, and disposes of the plane, “the existence of a discriminatory conduct and represaliante of the demand founded on ideological reasons” for considering that the measures adopted respond to the renewal of the management team.

“regardless of the respect of RTVE for the entire judicial decision”, he adds, “you can not share the criterion of the judgment that declares the nullity of the decision of RTVE of be attributed to Álvaro Zancajo functions of reporter, after its cessation as a director, despite holding that ‘logically the respondent -RTVE – was not obliged to perpetuate the actor in his position indefinitely'”.

The sentence is not firm, so that RTVE has announced that it will appeal a supplication.

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