Pamplona Employment Tribunal No. 3 has settled a claim for
disciplinary dismissal in a case of aggression on account of a
fistfight between two company employees who came to blows.
At the end of the working day, two employees were recorded by
the company's video surveillance cameras engaging in a fight in
the car park, in the course of which one of them, who carried a
whip, hit the other, and the latter, in turn, hit his colleague
with a motorcycle helmet that he was carrying in his hand. Both
were swinging punches at each other and continued the fight until
they were separated by another employee present on the site.
Recent legal doctrine by the Spanish Supreme Court endorses the
absence of need or the obligation on the part of the company to
offer specific information to inform employees when it intends to
use surveillance cameras as a system to monitor employee work
activity for possible disciplinary measures and/or dismissals.
