Paintings injuries / A 67-year-old guy was once left disabled however the employer went simple on him

An employer has been given a suspended jail sentence of simply 4 months for an twist of fate at paintings that left a 67-year-old guy totally, completely, completely not worthy for paintings. The case highlights on the similar time the extraordinarily problematic prerequisites that lead older other people to paintings in our nation, whilst the federal government prides itself at the higher choice of hired pensioners.

The paintings twist of fate in query passed off 4 years in the past, in the summertime, in a logistics corporate in Athens, with the sufferer being the then 67-year-old M.B. (its knowledge is to be had to the newspaper) and was once finalized just lately. All of it came about one afternoon, when the employee parked a van in entrance of an enormous 8 meter huge door, were given out loaded with applications, letters and invoices and went to depart them on the place of job. The variation within the mild out of doors in comparison to the very dim lighting fixtures within the construction was once large. They’d additionally left a lifting gadget that was once meant to be for restore on a pallet, with the 8 meter lengthy “forks” raised about part a meter. The end result was once that the employee tripped, fell and hit his head on a concrete pillar. He was once in a coma for 6 months and now has paraplegia, receives a incapacity pension, can not care for himself and faces a couple of well being issues.

Judicial calvary

The case was once sued by way of the sufferer and proceedings have been filed by way of each the sufferer and the Well being and Protection Committee, that have been attempted in combination. It was once additionally sued ex officio by way of the Exertions Inspectorate, which discovered that exertions rules were violated.

As Anastasios Papangelou, the worker’s attorney, describes in Sunday’s DAWN, within the trial of the lawsuit on the first court docket, reimbursement was once set for the sufferer within the quantity of fifty,000 euros. The employer appealed in opposition to the verdict and on the Courtroom of Attraction the reimbursement was once diminished to 35,000 euros, as a small complicity of the sufferer was once identified. Despite the fact that the verdict of the court docket of enchantment was once set as right away enforceable, it was once adopted, consistent with the sufferer’s attorney, by way of stumbling blocks at the a part of the employer, who went as far as to try to mislead the worker by way of asking him to signal a paper admitting that there was once no duty of the corporate for the twist of fate and that he waives pastime at the reimbursement. After extra-judicial court cases and the mobilization of the police for non-execution of a court docket order, reimbursement was once given to the sufferer.

Within the prison a part of the case, the place the businessman in whose title the industry operates was once accused of an business twist of fate with severe physically damage, the primary court docket sentenced him to 1 and a part years of suspended imprisonment making an allowance for that he’s aged. Right through the court cases an worker gave the impression as a protection witness for the employer and attempted to take complete duty for the twist of fate. The 3-member Courtroom of Misdemeanors, allowing for that the landlord of the industry was once on the similar time a accountable safety technician, sentenced him to 1 and a part years and prosecuted the witness moreover. Therefore, the case was once taken to the Courtroom of Attraction, the place the corporate falsely claimed that it was once nonetheless paying wages to the worker, whom it had no longer fired. Then again, he was once no longer ready to give the related information, except for for the cost of the presents that seem within the Ergani Knowledge Machine. The allegations didn’t persuade the court docket, which discovered him accountable. Then again, the sentence imposed on him was once handiest 4 months’ suspended imprisonment, allowing for the defendant’s age and state of well being.

4 months even for an twist of fate

“Within the Greek felony machine of 2024, negligently inflicting hurt or killing a stray animal is punishable by way of imprisonment or imprisonment of 5 years and a nice of 100,000 euros. The everlasting incapacity and even the loss of life of an worker is punishable by way of 4 months or one and a part years of suspended imprisonment and reimbursement from 30,000 to 200,000 euros” is the scathing remark of An. Papangellos, the sufferer’s recommend, at the imposed sentence. On the similar time, he states that the case “is an excellent reaction to the claims of the previous Minister of Exertions, Domnas Michailidou, that supposedly the aged in Greece are glad and want to proceed running till their everlasting incapacity or loss of life”.

This paintings twist of fate is indicative of the prerequisites confronted by way of such a lot of aged other people in our nation who’re not able to deal with the dwelling prerequisites and are pressured to paintings even after their retirement. The federal government, for its section, celebrates the choice of pensioners who’re nonetheless running and sign up at the EFKA’s particular digital platform as a substitute of analyzing the reasons that result in this unlucky phenomenon.