SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 16. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Contentious-Administrative Court Number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has upheld an appeal filed by a civil guard from the Traffic Service stationed in La Laguna against the body’s decision not to allow him to work in the morning as he had requested to to be able to take care of her autistic son in the afternoons.
The Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC), which has been in charge of defending the case through its legal services, stresses that the minor has a recognized disability of 75% and “great dependency of grade III-level 1”.
In addition, his condition worsened when non-verbal autism was detected and he began to require constant attention and assistance 24 hours a day to carry out his daily life safely.
Faced with this situation, the agent’s direct superior authorized that he could work during the morning but later denied him the possibility of conciliation to care for his son.
However, the child began to manifest disruptive behavior that could become violent and uncontrolled both for the child himself and for his assistants and from the legal defense, exercised by the lawyer Begoña Fleitas, it was considered that there was a violation of the principle of best interests of the minor, something that is contemplated in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and Family Conciliation.
The family burden of the civil guard is “exceptional” and the presence of the father and mother is necessary in the afternoon since the child goes to a Special Education school in the morning.
