Two Spanish council workers have been fired after the local town hall discovered they had been absent for up to 15 years.
Despite continuing to collect their wages from the Jerez de la Frontera authority in Andalusia, southern Spain, a driver and gardener could have been skipping since the turn of the millennium.
Concerns were initially raised among human resources officials after it was found the pair had collected their pay but had not worked from January 2015 until May 31, 2016. Further investigation of records revealed neither had done a day’s work in 15 years.
From: Two Spanish workers fired after 15 years of absence | Europe | News | The Independent
Spanish tax dollars at work. And let’s include the subtitle: Union to launch legal appeal against dismissalsReport
FWIW the union is contesting the factual finding that they hadn’t been working, not the normative one that people who don’t work shouldn’t get to keep their jobs – which, if in fact they had been working but their bosses had failed to record their work hours or something then indeed they should keep their jobs.Report
I think it’s more like ‘defense lawyers’. It’s their job to defend their guy, regardless of whatever else is involved.Report
Since it was determined they had done nothing to imperil the world economy, no additional bonuses were granted.Report
True, and since there was no evidence that their intentions were bad, and pointing to previous drivers and gardeners as evidence that no one has really worked in Spain since 2000, they were allowed to keep their jobs; one was promoted.Report