On June 3 of this 2025, the Social Chamber of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal for doctrine unification filed by a well -known furniture company in Spain. In 2022, one of its workers filed a lawsuit for unfair dismissal when considering that the company had fired it “without properly justifying the ineptitude overcome that alleged as a cause of the target dismissal. ”
After 17 years and 3 months working for this company, in 2018 the worker DD suffered an accident during his work shift. As explained by the Supreme Court's judgment, the employee, who held the pawn warehouse position with an indefinite contract and full -time, He fell down a staircase carrying a box, which caused a crooked ankle.
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This injury entailed the declaration of total permanent disability in 2020. A case that was reviewed two years later, in 2022, by the National Social Security Institute (INSS), who He extinguished the pension for improvement and made the employee return to his job.
However, the External Prevention Service declared that the employee was “not suitable” for his usual position. However, as explained by the judgment of the case, The company refused to adapt its position to its needs and objectively fired it alleging “ineptitude.” Some facts denounced by the employee.
They fire a worker for “ineptitude” after 17 years in the company: justice declares it inadmissible and forces his readmission
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In 2023, the Social Court No. 5 of Valencia dismisses the lawsuit filed by the worker against the company, ensuring that the dismissal is appropriate. It is then that DD issues an appeal for supplication before the TSJ of the Valencian Community that estimates the worker's appeal, revokes the previous sentence and declares the inadmissible dismissal.
Finally, it is the company who travels to the Supreme Court, which concludes this process by dismissing the company's appeal and failing in favor of the employee, as in the sentence already issued by the Superior Court of Justice who declared the dismissal inadmissible. In addition, said furniture company must readjust the worker or compensate it with an upright of 29 thousand euros.
