After being fired from his position after multiple accusations of manipulation, Urdaci requested a ten-year leave of absence that ended in 2014.
alfredo urdaci it has won the battle it waged years ago against TVE. The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid has ruled that the journalist has the right to reinstate him in public radio and television, where he served as news director between 2000 and 2004.
After being removed from his position after multiple accusations of manipulation, Urdaci requested a ten-year leave of absence that ended in 2014. At that time, he requested his reinstatement in the Corporation, which denied his request, arguing that his position – won by opposition in 1985 – was occupied. Besides, there were no vacancies and there were other preferential readmissions to his.
For this reason, he chose to take legal action against RTVE. The communicator filed a lawsuit in which he requested, in addition to his reinstatement to the chain, compensation of 300,000 euros for economic damage for not having received the salary corresponding to the period between 2015 and 2021.
According to El Debate, the sentence includes Urdaci’s right “to be reinstated as Reporter with the salary that is applicable at that time and without prejudice to the amount that may be set in execution of the Judgment, if applicable, for the corresponding period on January 17, 2015, until effective reinstatement as compensation.”
The aforementioned medium explains that his lawyer, Jon Zabala Otegui, a well-known labor activist on RTVE for having won more judicial cases of the style, has managed to get the Social Court number 13 of Madrid to issue a ruling in his favor. In 2015 he also obtained the reinstatement of workers from ‘Comando actualidad’ and ‘La mañana de La 1’.
Since that 1985, Urdaci has held various relevant positions within the structure of RNE and TVE. After being a correspondent in Rome for public radio for 11 years, in 1998 he made the leap to TVE as deputy director of information services, being promoted to director of the same in the year 2000. At that time, the National Court condemned public television for information manipulation.