Suprema - Rol N° 7066-2012

La Corte Suprema declara inadmisible un recurso de unificación por diferencias fácticas, mientras un tribunal laboral acoge demanda por despido injustificado y condena a indemnizaciones, rechazando acción de tutela por vulneración de derechos fundamentales.

• The admissibility of a jurisprudential unification resource requires the opportunity of filing and a substantiated argument, including a precise relation of different legal interpretations and copies of contrasting rulings.
• The Supreme Court declared a jurisprudential unification resource inadmissible because the factual premises of the case differed significantly from those in the contrasting judgments presented by the appellant.
• The mechanism for jurisprudential unification is considered exceptional and requires a clear demonstration of conflicting interpretations by lower courts on a specific legal matter.
• The Court of Appeals, in a replacement sentence, ruled that a worker who opts to collect indemnifications offered upon dismissal (Art. 169, letter a) of the Labor Code) cannot...