Fitness Queen

BILBAO - The Court of Administrative Vitoria number 3 has rejected an administrative appeal filed by the union against the convocation SIPE of the training of escorts that set different types of scales for men and women in some physical evidence.

As reported by the Basque Interior Department, the statement supports the resolution of April 19, 2010 the director of the Police Academy of the Basque Country which organized this selection process in accordance with law and declared the seventh base of the call.

The process was challenged by the base on the physical fitness test, particularly in the evaluation of multiple test demonstration of strength, where the eight exercises differed both in kind and in the scales. The appellants submit that the union violated the principle basis of equality to establish distinctions in the tests on the basis of sex”without justification.

The ruling states that  what can not be disputed is the different physical nature between men and women” and recalled that the Constitutional Court maintains that “it is this biological difference that can justify the disparate treatment in the classification of physical tests to access the training course.

The demand for different ways of overcoming the physical evidence is based on this biological difference between sexes for the purpose, in addition to legitimate and constitutional, to prevent demand the same regardless of these differences may be involved in limiting the practice access this course for women, in view of their different physical strength, which is precisely what is valued in relation to such tests to access the training course “, defends the decision.