The conscience clause of a journalist due to the ideological drift of TV-3 comes to trial

  • The reporter invokes this precept to terminate his contract at his own request due to the degrading treatment suffered and the “substantial” change in the “ideological line” in the chain

A judge will determine whether the TV-3 journalist, Santiago Torres, With an extensive 30-year career in the ’30 Minuts’ program, he has the right to terminate his contract at his own request and receive compensation based on the invocation of the conscience clause after “the process of workplace harassment & rdquor; and “degrading & rdquor; suffered by being removed from his job, and the “substantial” change in the “ideological line” of the chain, which denies the accusations. The trial is scheduled to take place this Wednesday in the City of Justice of Barcelona.

It is the first time that a TV-3 journalist alleges this conscience clause recognized in the Constitution and collected in the Drafting Statute of Catalan television, and that allows information professionals to request the termination of their contracts when they consider that their company undergoes a substantial change in the informational orientation or ideological line or that they cannot continue to carry out their work normally, having been transferred to another medium of the group.

The labor lawsuit filed by Torres, which has originated the trial set for this Wednesday, indicates that these two circumstances “have occurred in a larval, but continuous way & rdquor; and that the journalist was transferred to another channel, on 3/24, which represents a “clear break with professional orientation & rdquor; that it has been maintaining. It specifies that the “bias & rdquor; of the informative orientation is specified in “the progressive centralization of the control of the information, which translates into less autonomy of the professionals & rdquor ;.

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The writing emphasizes that “The hierarchy of the informative activity & rdquor; annihilates “the necessary professional independence in the treatment of information & rdquor ;. In this context, the TV-3 reporter denounces the “will & rdquor; of his superiors to separate him “progressively & rdquor; of an informative work “carried out independently & rdquor ;. As Torres’ lawyer understands, this “centralization & rdquor; of journalistic decisions corresponds to “the substantial change in information orientation or ideological line & rdquor; of the chain.

The news agency of TV-3 denied these accusations and that the journalist was separated for political and ideological reasons. The chain circumscribes the episode to a confrontation between the worker and the producer of a space. He also rejected the existence of workplace harassment and defended that the chain “works with total freedom of expression.”

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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