The Labor Hazard Prevention Law stipulates that a worker’s job must be adapted to his or her psychological and physical conditions.
The representative of CNT’s union section in the Adra City Government, Maria Carmen Terol, recently was able to readapt her position to her physical characteristics. This public servant, in Parks and Gardens, cleaned and pruned green areas, something incompatible with her chronic lumbalgia.
After a year of backpedaling by the Committee of Safety and Hygiene manned by UGT, CCOO and CSIF representatives, a CNT delegate walked into the staff municipal councilor’s office to have a talk about the matter. During their conversation, she presented the medical report from social security doctor as well as the City Government’s own risk prevention and assessment service that clearly recommended a change of functions. Maria also insisted that it was ridiculous to have a worker on leave intermittently instead of just addressing the obvious need to readapt her position. This incongruous situation was an infringement by the City Government of the Labor Hazard Prevention Law. The City Government Workers’ Union and Social Conditions Pact stipulates that workers, due to their age or for any other reason, whose capacity to carry out tasks with a particular effort, hardship or danger is diminished will be placed in a position that adapts to their physical conditions. This reiterates the articles in the same law that refer to the protection of workers who are overly sensitive to certain risks.
After the compromise arrived at with the anarcho-syndicalist union several months ago we have checked that our CNT union representative’s functions have been changed. She went from the Parks and Gardens maintenance area to one supervising and controlling irrigation in green areas. Our comrade was able to recover from her lumbalgia and improve her quality of life.
