The City Council confirmed that the former Torrevieja police officer who lost his job for refusing to carry weapons for religious reasons has filed a lawsuit against them for 39,450 euros in damages. Federico Alarcón, the Councillor for Citizen Security, said this.
The officer had been working as an interim officer in the Torrevieja staff since 2003. However, during the required stabilisation process at the Valencian Institute of Public Security (IVASPE) to solidify his position as a civil servant, he refused to take firearms training and practice shooting.
The Local Police officer lost his job because he wouldn’t carry the required gun. He turned down this condition, which was a baseline need for all applicants, because it went against his religious convictions. He also promised to use it if necessary. His rationale was religious, as revealed by sources in the governing team and repeated by Councillor Alarcón last week when he acknowledged the case filed in the Administrative Court of Elche. The councillor made this remark while talking about the decisions made by the governing board, which agreed to let the City Council join the legal proceedings.
What the law says
Alarcón said that the former agent is using conscientious objection to ask for this compensation. He also said that the laws that govern the stabilisation process, which has helped thousands of temporary workers get jobs all over the country, say that applicants who haven’t been able to consolidate their positions should get compensation.
Under Law 20/2021, this is the amount of money that interim or temporary workers who are fired for not passing the stabilisation process will get for not being able to find stable work in Spain. It is 20 days of fixed salary for each year of service, based on their entire time in the administration, not just their last contract, “provided that they have participated in said selection processes.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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