Influence of Food Law in a social process for dismissal: commentary on SJS León 648/2021 of 29 November

Abstract

The case of a disciplinary dismissal of the manager of a meat industry company serves as an example of the extensive regulatory production in the area of food safety. It is precisely the vital importance of food-related acts which, in the face of the alteration and commercialisation of an important lot of manipulated meat, transcends the effects of a simple dismissal for indiscipline or disobedience at the workplace towards a possible criminal liability. The fact that the proceedings had previously been declared null and void, due to the claimant's lack of defence in relation to its proposal for witness evidence, provides a further incentive to consider this judgement worthy of review.