A bakery in Barcelona, Spain must pay the equivalent of more than $35,000 to an employee who was fired for urinating in mixing bowls… because the camera that allegedly caught her in the act was illegally in the room was installed.
In the summer of 2018, the Neucroissant Bakery employee, whose identity was not disclosed, received a termination letter after she was apparently caught urinating in containers intended for the kitchen, The Telegraph reported Thursday.
The woman was seen “squatting” in images from a surveillance camera that was allegedly installed in the room without warning employees [et] “urinating in a bowl” before rinsing it with water and “placing it with the rest of the clean utensils to be used later in production for consumption by customers,” a detective agency hired by the company would have brought before the Supreme Court of Catalonia stated.
However, Spanish law prohibits an employer from installing cameras in employee rest areas, including changing rooms, toilets and dining rooms.
And since there was no designated changing room in the bakery, employees used a production area for this purpose where the woman would have been surprised, making it illegal to install a camera in that room.
According to The Telegraph, the company must therefore reimburse the employee more than 25,000 euros, or more than 35,300 US dollars, as compensation for the loss of income related to her dismissal.