Court recognizes grandmother’s right to adapt her workday to care for her granddaughter

The Social Court number 2 of Santander recognized the right of a grandmother to adapt your workday to take care of your granddaughter.

The company in the telecomputing sector opposed this measure, citing difficulties in correctly covering working hours and emphasizing that conciliation requests should be given priority caring for minors with first-degree relatives.

Faced with the refusal, the USO union took legal action, knowing that the Workers’ Statute allowed in this case to apply time adjustment to the grandmother, since the minor belongs to a single-parent family and her mother was immersed in a training process which made their care difficult.

Precisely, the USO announced this decision which proves it right by considering it “new and relevant”, since until now the adaptation measures were reserved for care of first-degree relatives.

The sentence, pronounced by the titular magistrate Nuria Perchín Benito and without appeal, specifies that “the request for custody of her granddaughter with whom she lives is not a reason for the refusal of the worker to adapt her working hours , given that this hypothesis is provided for in the standard (needs of care concerning the worker’s parents by consanguinity up to the second degree,without any preference or priority for the care of a child under 12 years old