Man arrested in Los Gallardos for violating workers’ rights

    A local of Los Gallardos, identified by the Guardia Civil as Jesus Angel N.P., aged 34, went to the local police station to report his car stolen claiming that a man who worked for him had not returned the vehicle after being lent it to do a job. After giving a statement the alleged car thief returned the vehicle to its rightful owner but as a result of the statement and subsequent investigations by the Guardia Civil it turned out that the reason the worker had kept the car was because he was owed three months salary by Jesus Angel. He and another man had been working for Jesus Angel without any kind of contract despite repeated requests to him to give them formal work contracts. In three months only one of the two had been paid 600 euros for the work they had done, with the total amount being owed to them allegedly coming to 3,290 euros. Things came to a head and one of the workers decided to keep the car in lieu of payment. Jesus Angel was arrested for an alleged crime of violating workers' rights and will be tried in the first instance before court number three in Vera.