He The Supreme Court has not accepted for processing the appeal filed by the company Carreras de Seseña regarding the 5-day leave for an accident or serious illness, hospitalization or surgical intervention with home rest for close relatives and cohabitants. In this way, the highest judicial body in Spain agrees with the Works Committee, where UGT has the majority of representation.
Carreras – from now on – must begin to apply what was also ruled at the time by the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha and now ratified by the Supreme Court: the enjoyment of this 5-day leave regardless of the duration of the hospitalization or illness and without the management being able to require the worker to provide any type of daily proof of the patient’s situation.
The Careers Company Committee in Seseña – with a staff of nearly 500 people – shows its satisfaction with the Supreme Court’s decision, since it puts a stop to a business practice that violates the labor rights included in the Workers’ Statute.
The Federation of Services, Mobility and Consumption (FeSMC) of UGT – who is the one who has promoted this claim – explains that the problems in the application of this permit began since it was approved in June 2023, with many companies asking the worker to justify each day of rest or each day of entry.
Las two sentences won by UGT in the Superior Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha At the beginning of 2025 in the province of Guadalajara they have represented a before and after in this sense, since they were the first in Spain to endorse that the company cannot require daily receipts, which paved the way for judicial decisions such as the one that now affects Carreras in Seseña.
