The Parliament Board confirmed this Tuesday the dismissal of the now former director of internal government, Anna Torné, and has decided not to admit her complaint for alleged workplace harassment, considering that when she registered it, she was no longer part of the Chamber's staff, so the protocol "does not apply" in her situation.
Parliamentary sources have detailed that, since the prevention, detection, addressing, and resolution protocol for psychological harassment situations in parliamentary administration cannot be applied to her, Torné will have to resort to ordinary judicial channels to defend her claims.
The change was agreed upon Thursday afternoon at the initiative of the Parliament's general secretary, Clara Marsan, citing a loss of trust in Torné, and the Board "assumes and shares" that proposal unanimously.
Regarding the fact that the dismissal occurred while the affected party was on medical leave, the same sources have emphasized that "in no case is the leave the reason for the dismissal," but rather the loss of trust linked to professional competence issues.
The position held by the former director of internal government is a high-level trust position (without a position obtained through competition) and, after her dismissal, the position will remain unfilled.
"DISRESPECTFUL TREATMENT"
Torné explained in statements to Europa Press that she had been preparing the complaint with her lawyers for some time and that its submission occurred on the same Thursday she received the formal communication of her dismissal.
She claimed to have suffered "disrespectful treatment" in meetings and that, since June, she began to perceive that they stopped counting on her in those meetings and that she was being sidelined from her responsibilities.
The complainant stated that she had suffered harassment from the general secretary in recent months, which is why she was on medical leave.