The mayor of La Floresta resigned accused of labor and gender harassment

The acting instructor Noelia De Mello arrived at that conclusion after obtaining eleven statements from those involved, to which was added the support of the Legal Services Directorate of the commune, as can be seen from the 24 pages of file to which she accessed. The Observer.

De Mello consulted nine officials, the administrative secretary of the municipality and the mayor himself. The acting instructor noticed that “all the complainants are women” to link workplace harassment with gender reasons.

Two of them reported complications during periods when they were breastfeeding. “They set up a room for me in his office to express milk, but since there is so much work, it is impossible for me to stop to do it, (…) I was forced to do it because it was very inconvenient to leave homework or perhaps not schedule people at that time to express milk. I work alone and nobody can cover me, “said one. The other maintained that Erramouspe told her to” do it in the bathroom “, and that later he forced her to make up the half hour that she had destined for it.

One of the complainants said that she had to work as a person in charge of personalized attention during October, when the public is concentrated during the time of exonerations. “That means I didn’t have time to go to the bathroom, I didn’t have lunch most days, it was a world of people constantly, I would come home crying every day,” she recounted. Despite complaining to the mayor, he told her that “as the boss she had to be able to do it alone”, and threatened to take compensation from her, remarking that “she could do it”.

The mayor of La Floresta was the last cited in the administrative investigation of the Canelones Administration. The communist leader attributed the situation to the “high stress” of his work team after assuming functions in the middle of the pandemicwhich “could lead to a sensitivity that made them understand that” he was not addressing “them in the best way”.