The union communicated its “great concern” about the dozens of complaints of workplace harassment against a leader and the recent suicide of a judicial official.
The judges warned of a crisis in the Uruguayan Justice.
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The Association of Magistrates of Uruguay (AMU) warned of an “institutional crisis” in the Power of attorneyafter the union communicated its “great concern” about the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) to initiate an administrative investigation and not remove from office a leader who received 32 complaints for workplace harassment.
In recent days, the director of Administrative Services of the Judiciary, Marcelo Pesce, was accused of harassment in the work environment following the suicide of a judicial official less than two weeks ago. Faced with this, the AMU requested the removal of the leader, however, the request only found the support of the president of the SCJ, Doris Moralesbut not so on the part of the other ministers, who left her in the minority.
For some months now, several officials had been internally denouncing Fish for mistreatment. According to what he said Pablo Elizaldepresident of the Association of Judicial Officials (AFJU) to Montevideo Portal, Fish He would have ordered the man who committed suicide to be “in charge of the toilet paper”, assuring that “if there was no roll in one of the bathrooms” he would be “sanctioned”.
Likewise, in addition to this type of harassment, the worker was isolated without being able to talk to his colleagues during the entire work day, since otherwise they were all threatened with sanctions. Elizalde He also explained that the authorities carried out “social media investigations”, where if officials uploaded photos together, they were sanctioned or transferred to another location within the office.
The AFJU also expressed that they received complaints from women who had to take maternity leave in advance, since they were harassed just for the fact of being pregnant.
“Aberrant acts of workplace violence and harassment”
For its part, Leonardo Mendezfrom the AMU, commented today to Subrayado that the union totally regrets “the aberrant acts of violence and workplace harassment that are being investigated,” and that “it is important that we get to the bottom of this issue.”
In the face of serious accusations, Moralesthe president of the CSJ, stated yesterday to the press that, beyond an investigation, Fish “he lost their trust” and there would be more than enough elements to remove him from office.
Source: Ambito
