A Coruña, España
España incumple en muchos aspectos la Carta Social Europea –CSE– (tanto originaria como revisada) y se ha mostrado renuente a cumplirla, a pesar de haberla ratificado e incorporado a nuestro ordenamiento interno con su publicación en el BOE y, en consecuencia, estar sujetos a la misma todos los poderes (legislativo, ejecutivo y judicial) del Estado y lógicamente el resto de poderes públicos (estatales, autonómicos, provinciales y locales). Según el Comité Europeo de Derechos Sociales (CEDS), uno de dichos aspectos es el relativo al derecho a una indemnización adecuada (del art. 24 CSE) en el caso de nuestro despido improcedente, sobre el que existe ya jurisprudencia contradictoria de los tribunales superiores de justicia que –al margen de cambios normativos que pueden hacerse al respecto– acabará propiciando la intervención del Tribunal Supremo. La sentencia aquí analizada, conocedora de esta jurisprudencia, reconoce el pago de una indemnización adicional porque la tasada legalmente por despido improcedente no es adecuada, ni tampoco reparadora ni disuasoria, tras analizar el impacto en nuestro derecho interno tanto de la CSE como del CEDS.
Spain is in breach of the European Social Charter (both original and revised) in many respects and has shown itself to be reluctant to comply with it, despite having ratified it and incorporated it into our domestic legislation with its publication in the BOE and, consequently, all the powers (legislative, executive and judicial) of the State and logically the rest of the public authorities (state, autonomous, provincial and local) are subject to it. According to the European Committee of Social Rights, one of these aspects relates to the right to adequate compensation (article 24 of this Charter) in the case of our unfair dismissal, on which there is already contradictory case law from the High Courts of Justice which —apart from any regulatory changes that may be made in this respect— will eventually lead to the intervention of the Supreme Court. The judgement analysed here, aware of this case law, recognises the payment of additional compensation because the legally established compensation for unfair dismissal is neither adequate, nor reparatory, nor dissuasive, after analysing the impact on our domestic law of both the European Social Charter and the European Committee of Social Rights.