2024-09-13 17:19:48
The courts forced the music Malinche, from the producer Nacho Cano, to compensate 24,000 euros to a dancer who was unfairly dismissed and to whom they tried to pay only a third of the money and avoid a trial. The social judges of the High Court of Justice of Madrid limit the confirmation that the worker who was dismissed irregularly, as the company itself admitted, is entitled to eight monthly payments of his salary and not just the little more than 6,000 euros they offered. him in the first minute. In recent weeks, another court in Madrid has been criminally investigating whether the producer brought interns to work on the music Malinche in Madrid camouflaged as tourists.
A judge charges Nacho Cano and investigates whether he brought interns camouflaged as tourists to the musical ‘Malinche’
The case that the specialized labor judges have just sentenced is that of a dancer who started working on Cano’s opera a year before the premiere, who was part of the cast until the company informed him that he was dismissed in April 2023. The reason: “Continuous voluntary reduction in performance in the performance of assigned tasks.”
This is one of the cases where the Workers’ Statute expressly considers that a company can dismiss a worker in a disciplinary manner, without paying compensation as such. But the company behind the music Malincheat the same time, that it was an unfair dismissal and offered him just over 6,200 euros to consider that he had received compensation and, in practice, to avoid a trial.
A social court ruled in favor of the dancer and ruled, in a decision now confirmed by the Superior Court of Madrid, that he was entitled to a much higher compensation: 24,000 euros corresponding to eight months as established in the Madrid agreement of Actors and Actresses when a contract lasting up to two and a half years is terminated. In contact with elDiario.es, company sources refused to specify whether the sentence is already final or whether an appeal has been made to the Supreme Court in the case.
The dancer signed two contracts during the time he worked on Nacho Cano’s opera, one for each season in which he participated in rehearsals and on stage. One of the legal debates in the case concerned whether it could be considered a single contract for the purposes of calculating compensation and the judges answered in the affirmative: the entire length of their employment relationship is the sum of the two contracts together, not just the second one.
“We are facing the same contract of up to two and a half years which justifies the compensation to be paid for the termination of the contract without justifiable reason calculated according to the amount shown by eight months of salary and as that’s for the sum. of 24,000 euros,” says the company. judgment.
Criminal investigation against Nacho Cano
As this newspaper has published in recent months, there are various testimonies from former workers of the Nacho Cano show that criticize the working conditions they go through while under the orders of the producer and the musician. Days well above the legal limit, poor nutrition and even “threats to throw you out on the street” overlap with the criminal investigation investigating the presence of more than fifteen interns at his show in an allegedly illegal manner.
The investigative court of the capital number 19 has accused Cano and some of his collaborators in a case that investigates whether he brought almost 20 scholarship recipients to Spain from Mexico camouflaged as tourists. “I remind you that you will be traveling as tourists, you should not mention in immigration that you are going to study,” explained one of Cano’s colleagues to the recipients of the scholarships in a WhatsApp message that contributed to the cause.
According to the Police, the young people “were brought in as tourists, and were instructed to pretend they were entering.” According to Nacho Cano, everything is part of a police operation to punish his support and his closeness to Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid. “Personal destruction for political purposes is Stalin,” said Ayuso herself, supporting the producer.
The case is waiting to see if it will be possible to take a judicial statement from the affected scholarship holders, who appeared publicly from the beginning in support of Nacho Cano and who recently left the country, and some courts considering their precautionary request to be. able to stay in Spain. They all had to return to Mexico after the Government Delegation informed them that they had been refused authorization to stay for studies.
Cano’s defense also involves questioning the testimony of the dancer whose complaint led to the investigations. After implying in his first press conference that the young woman was fired from the show because of what she believed to be a contrary view, the producer provided the judge with some messages in which the young woman was supposed to be giving messages to the judge. not reporting the facts in exchange for collecting 6,000 euros.
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