The Supreme Court endorses companies forcing their workers to sign when they go out to smoke or drink coffee

• Complaint The National Court endorses deducting breaks to smoke or have a coffee from work time

The

has rejected an appeal filed by the

against the

gas stations and has thus endorsed that the companies force their workers to sign when they go out to smoke or drink coffee, according to a ruling to which Europa Press has had access .

The union already filed a lawsuit against the company in 2019 in the

in which it requested that the calculation of incidence records on absence to smoke, drink coffee or have breakfast be declared null, which until then were integrated into the working day and it was not recorded or deducted.

In that first lawsuit, CCOO also demanded the annulment of the fact that overtime depended on prior authorization by the direct manager and the new working hours calculation established by Galp, with the accounting of work trips as normal working hours.

The National Court then rejected that demand and now the Supreme Court is doing it again with this appeal.

The Supreme Court has confirmed the 2019 sentence of the National Court.

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