He had passed the selective tests , everything was ready for signing the contract and being hired into the Fire Brigade . But things went differently after the woman confessed to having multiple sclerosis . The emblematic case ended up on the table of the Regional Councilor for Equality, Maria Tiziana Putzolu: «Every form of discrimination must find a firm and decisive reaction in the institutions – specifies Putzolu – but in this case we are faced with a surreal story. Not only because discrimination occurs on the basis of a worker's health conditions, but because it is the State that implements the discriminatory behavior in one of its branches."
The story begins in 2021 when the woman was called by the Regional Directorate and the Provincial Command of Cagliari to undergo the selection for which she had applied through the city Employment Centre . Once the tests had been passed and the documentation for acceptance of the employment had been sent to the Command, the signing of the contract would have concluded the procedure. Due to a regulatory change, she was subjected to new medical examinations in Rome, during which she declared her illness. During the checks she was subjected to various questions: "What is your vision of the future regarding your pathology?", one of many. His pathology, classified as neuropsychic, gave rise to a long series of medical reports and tests not foreseen in the selection notice.
The news of the exclusion from the selection was announced on 6 June 2022 . Thus the ordeal from a health worker becomes a judicial one : the appeal to the Lazio Regional Administrative Court declares the lack of jurisdiction, the Labor Judge of Cagliari issues a suspension pending the appeal to the Council of State. The latter then confirmed the decision of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court a few days ago, which had declared that the jurisdiction for this dispute belonged to the ordinary judge acting as the Labor Judge. The Equality councilor opened the file . Ready to intervene, for her it is a possible gender discrimination, given that this pathology affects a large number of people in Sardinia (over 7,000 suffer from MS, 70% of whom are women), the highest percentage in all of Italy . In the case of the woman excluded from the selection, the disease presents itself "in a manner completely free of physical or psychological limitations: a discriminatory action dictated more by prejudice than by medical-scientific evidence ".
(Unioneonline/vf)