Court rejects bid to bring Dénia laboratory staff into the public workforce

A labour court in Benidorm has dismissed CCOO’s claim seeking recognition of Hospital de Dénia laboratory workers as employees of the Conselleria de Sanidad. The ruling concludes that the Administration is not required to bring them into its public workforce and applies an approach that was also followed in the Torrevieja case.

The union’s claim asked for the laboratory staff to become part of the Conselleria’s workforce. The ruling rejects that request. The information published about the decision does not specify other aspects of the proceedings or detail the employment circumstances of each worker concerned.

The reference to Torrevieja places the Benidorm decision in line with a legal approach previously applied in another case involving the incorporation of staff into the public workforce. According to the information available, the court followed that approach in ruling on the claim concerning Hospital de Dénia’s laboratory.

The ruling concerns the request made by CCOO and whether the Administration is obliged to bring these workers in as employees of the Conselleria. The claim has been dismissed, so the requested incorporation has not been recognised. According to the information published, the decision does not mean that any changes to the laboratory’s organisation or to the duties performed by its staff have been detailed in this report.

The report also does not specify whether the union intends to appeal the ruling or provide information about any subsequent action. Therefore, based on the information released so far, the known outcome is the court’s rejection of the claim and its application of an approach with the cited precedent in Torrevieja. The ruling was issued by a labour court in Benidorm.