compensation of 22,503 euros
Mercadona is one of the supermarket chains that better pay your employees. It is also one of those that applies a harsher labor policy, with complaints and lawsuits for unfair dismissals and pressures to its workers. The latest judicial ruling has condemned Juan Roig’s company to compensate the Galician Intersyndical Confederation (CIG) for violating the freedom of association of its workers. The Pontevedra committee. The conflict has its origins in the Health and Safety Committee (CSS) of Pontevedra, a body in which four union delegates for occupational risk prevention participate: two from UGT and two from CCOO, along with four representatives from Mercadona. The delegates of the Galician Inter-Union Confederation also attended the meetings, but unlike the four delegates of UGT and CCOO, they only had a voice in the committee, but no vote, as they did not hold the position of prevention delegates. No documentation for union members. In this context, the two union delegates of the CIG found that Mercadona denied them documentation relevant to the issues that were addressed in that committee, which it did deliver to the representatives of UGT and CCOO, while it only showed them the reports projected on a screen during the meeting. That is, they sat down to debate measures about which they had not previously been provided with information. A difference in treatment that the court has considered unjustified and contrary to the law. On December 2, 2025, the union requested in writing from Mercadona the psychosocial evaluation reports, the CSS regulations and the appointment data of the delegates of the other unions. That same day, without further delay, Mercadona rejected the request, arguing that the CIG delegates were not prevention delegates and, therefore, did not have the right to receive that documentation. Justice ruled in their favor. Given Mercadona’s refusal to provide the delegates with the necessary documents, the CIG filed a lawsuit before the Superior Court of Justice of Galicia to force Mercadona to deliver the documents that allowed them to assert the rights of the workers they represented. The court analyzed each of the union’s three requests and their denial by Mercadona, declaring them contrary to the fundamental right of freedom of association established in the article 28.1 of the Spanish Constitution. In statements To La Voz de Galicia, Transi Fernández, regional secretary of CIG-Servizos de Vigo, assured that “we do not understand this repression that the company is doing. This harassment has to stop.” Three out of three against Mercadona. The first conduct that the court reproached Mercadona for in his sentenceconsisted of denying the CIG delegates the same reports and documents on occupational risk prevention that the company did provide to the rest of the members of the CSS. The court stressed that the only limitation that the Occupational Risk Prevention Law imposes on the CIG union delegates in this body is the absence of voting, but in no case access to information. The other two conducts declared void were the refusal to provide a copy of the internal operating regulations of the CSS and the refusal to report on the identity and dates of appointment of the union delegates of UGT and CCOO, which prevented the CIG from verifying whether there was a deal unequal or favoritism between union organizations. The sentence was not a reprimand: there is compensation. The TSXG was not content with warning Mercadona and urging it to abandon its blocking attitude, but rather set compensation at 22,503 euros for moral damages, taking into consideration the violation of a fundamental labor right. Mercadona sources consulted by Europa Press They indicated that the company was “internally evaluating” whether to appeal the ruling, and defended that Mercadona “always” provides all information to the Health and Safety Committee “for its proper functioning.” “Now, the TSXG interprets that, in addition, we have to deliver this information and documentation to union delegates who are not prevention delegates,” company representatives have pointed out. founded by Juan Roigattributing the ruling to this “difference in legal interpretation.” In Xataka | There is such an obsession with supermarkets in Spain that they already have their own “hooligans” generated by AI Image | Wikipedia
