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Vic, the First City Council Convicted of Demanding Too Much Catalan From Its Employees: "It's an Exclusionary Barrier"
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Vic has become the first Catalan City Council to be convicted for demanding a disproportionate level of Catalan to access a job in the Consistory....
The council will appeal the ruling and denounces the “blindness” of the judiciary against the own language ACN The Contentious Court number 15 of Barcelona has declared that the bases of the public competition of the Vic City Council where a level of Catalan B2 was required to apply for a position as a worker in the cemetery are null and void. As reported by El Mundo and confirmed by the ACN, the ruling considers that the level of Catalan requir…
The consistory, in the hands of Junts, raised the level of Catalan required to work as a maintenance worker in the cemetery.
"We'll go as far as we need to," says Mayor de Vic, Albert Castells.
The City Council of Vic has been convicted by a judge of Barcelona for demanding a level of knowledge of the Catalan language too high to access a post of
The mayor of Vic, Albert Castells, has expressed his indignation at the ruling of the 15th Administrative Court of Barcelona declaring null and void the rules of a public competition, which required a B2 level of Catalan to apply for a position as a cemetery and maintenance worker. “What we have here is a persecution of the language and we will go wherever necessary to defend ourselves,” he told RAC1. According to the ruling, reported by the new…
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