The Supreme Court has condemned the judiciary for failing to regulate the workload of judges and prosecutors for occupational health reasons and has mandated it to regulate this issue. The ruling of the Social Chamber refuses to give the panel of judges a period of three months to adopt this regulation, as requested by the four associations of judges, since the professional risk prevention plan for the judicial career of 2015-2016, the non-compliance of which is alleged, “don’t set a deadline” to complete this task.
The court decision partially upholds an appeal by the judicial associations Judges and Judges for Democracy, Judges and Magistrates Francisco de Vitoria, Judicial Professional and Independent Judicial Forum. The court also annulled the judgment of the National Court dismissing the collective dispute action filed by the judicial associations against the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).
The resolution, whose speaker was Judge Ignacio García Ponte, reiterates that Section 5.2 of the Plan for the Prevention of Occupational Risks for Judicial Careers does not specify how the workload of judges should be regulated, nor does it specify which modules, criteria or indicators, if any should be used and is of the opinion that the initiatives taken by the judiciary so far are circumstantial. “The conclusion seems clear: the CGPJ has only provisionally determined the workload of the judicial career for occupational health purposes and not definitively. Or, if you prefer, it is still in the process of regulating the workload of judicial careers for professional health purposes,” the court decision said.
[Noticia de última hora. Habrá actualización en breve.]
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