Toajas, Montero’s protégé, harassed a gender technician at work and is now an assistant human resources manager

He made these remarks despite the fact that activists reported, through party channels, the abnormal situation of maintaining Toajas in power, who was firmly found guilty of harassment at work, as reported by EL ESPAÑOL.

Asked what measures she plans to take in this regard, she indicated that “Justice has already taken him“.

“The only thing that changed my party compared to code of ethics or statutory issues have to do with harassment of womennot with other situations linked to the world of work,” he clarified.

What was declared by Montero contradicts what was declared four days ago by the Secretary General of the PSOE and President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez.

In his review of the year, Sánchez did not distinguish between sexual harassment and workplace harassment in cases which, in recent times, affect the leaders and public officials of their party.

“It is important to emphasize that in the face of a structural evil that is occurring in all areas, the PSOE was the first to establish a protocol, to provide coverage and to protect and strong case of alleged workplace or sexual harassment“, declared the leader of the socialists.

In 2021, when he was finally found guilty of workplace harassment, Francisco José Toajas He was vice-president of the Provincial Council of Seville. In 2023, and after the victory of the PSOE in the provincial elections, He was appointed deputy responsible for the civil servants sector..

Montero also pointed out that the conviction, as reported by EL ESPAÑOL, concerns workplace harassment and was handed down in 2021: “Neither the statutes nor the party protocol have changed at all.. So this person respected the sentence that you know perfectly well,” he said.

A genre technique

The TSJA judgment, to which this newspaper had access, considers as proven facts that Toajas, mayor of Las Cabezas de San Juan and president of the supramunicipal entity Adelquivir, “maintained a passive attitude, delaying the activation of the anti-harassment protocol”confronted with events which “he knew were occurring”, since they had been notified to him in writing.

The High Court of Andalusia found that Toajas “further encouraged (the harassment situation) by delegating personnel management functions to the director”, which fell within his powers as president.

The person harassed, a woman, was a technician from Adelquivir. Precisely, the one who exercised, among his functions, Gender technique. She is the one who participated in all the training on equality and gender carried out by the General Directorate of Rural Development and in her own projects. Knowledge that he then passed on to his colleagues.

Besides Toajas, Adelquivir’s manager, Jose Antonio Navarro. He had already been convicted of sexual harassment against MDPM, an employee and subordinate of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Bajo Guadalquivir, when Navarro was director of the entity.

In fact, Navarro was in Commonwealth payroll, Gesalquivir companydependent on the first, and on Adelquivir, where he retained an office and a salary.

The sentence was handed down by Criminal Court No. 8 of Seville in March 2012. Due to these events, and others, such as paying for a trip to Cuba from the Commonwealth budget, he resigned from his position and focused on his work as director of Adelquivir.

The harassed technician was the sister-in-law of the mayor of Lebrija from the PSOE era. The councilor was president of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Bajo Guadalquivir, an entity now defunct and integrated among the members of Adelquivir.

In 2012, at a board meeting, the mayor announced that Navarro had been convicted of sexual harassment four years earlier. This is what caused his downfall and the start of his sister-in-law’s ordeal..

Although he was firmly found guilty of sexual harassment and after Francisco José Toajas received an invitation for Adelquivir to participate in a training process on gender equality, José Antonio Navarro sent him an email on May 9, 2017.

In it, Toajas asked Navarro if they should send someone to take this course on gender equality. The manager responded the same day: “Maybe it wouldn’t be practicalwho leads the genre in the group is XXX. As you say…”

The woman had accumulated several psychological losses due to the harassment he sufferedwith diagnoses such as “generalized anxiety symptoms,” according to the TSJA. Unable to take it any longer, she informed the Adelquivir board of directors in November 2017 that she was being harassed by the manager “since he was sentenced to a criminal sentence”.

The woman received no response. The coach then asked Francisco José Toajas, “to defend himself against such accusations”, to demand proof of his accusations from the coach.

It was only then that the socialist leader responded to the woman, a month later, informing her that he would convene the board of directors during which her case would be clarified, and that she would transmit to him the evidence she claimed to have to support her accusation of harassment at work.

The Board of Directors concluded that it was necessary to compile an informative file, with the Provincial Delegation of Seville being the investigating body. The judgment considers that “no communication for these purposes” was addressed to the Provincial Council..

Subsequently, and in addition to having been physically and professionally isolated from her colleagues, the technician was forced by the manager to participate in all gender tasks falling within your competence outside of your working hours.

This opened a new conflict due to José Antonio Navarro’s refusal to compensate him for the hours: they had to be attributed to work days or vacation days.

In May 2018, the manager took early retirement and to do so, is compensated by Adelquivir to the tune of 24,000 euros. The judgment that declared him, as well as the current head of Public Employment of the Provincial Delegation of Seville, harassers in the workplace, compensated the victim with 6,251 euros.

Second case of harassment

Francisco Toajas being vice president of the Provincial Council, it was when the sentence that condemned him became, in 2021. Five months later, he reached an agreement with another worker from Adelquivir, who compensated with 20,000 euros to avoid being judged for violation of his fundamental rights.

He received the protection of the PSOE and the Provincial Council and refused to resign, despite the request of Adelante, IU and the PP. He went so far as to say that “if anyone else had been president, he would have suffered the same stain.”

He resigned as president of Adelquivir a year after promising to do so, under pressure from the Andalusian Government’s Department of Agriculture.

This summer, during his speech at a conference on human resources management in public administrations, Francisco Toajas highlighted professional public management as “basic element, which ensures the effectiveness of local public administration“. All this after being convicted and having to compensate two of his subordinates.