Council Worker Refunded

AN Alicante court has ruled that Denia council must continue paying a productivity supplement to an employee for carrying out more duties than usual, after she assumed the tasks of a colleague who had retired. According to the lawsuit filed by the Administration Employees Union (EMAD), the council had stopped paying the remuneration to the employee.

According to the statement sent by EMAD on Friday, July 28, in February 2021 the personnel department provisionally assigned both current and previous duties to the af­ fected worker, who had moved departments. She was paid a supplement for her extra duties.

According to the union's account, the council then stopped paying the productivity supplement and also proceeded to agree to its "cessation with retroactive effect, thus violating its own resolution and ignoring reports" reported EMAD. The court ruled in her favour with the right to receive reimbursement for the amounts approved and not received from July 16, 2021 to the current date. Denia council cannot appeal the ruling.