Italian Hospital Worker allegedly Absent for Work for 15 Year Straight with Salary €538,000 over the Years
source londontnewstimes
In Italy, a man just earned the title of being the King of absent by local media when he was found absent of work for 15 years. Yes! 15 years straight. The hospital worker who allegedly started skipping work at Ciaccio hospital in the southern city of Catanzaro in the Calabria region in 2005.
The media report that he is now under investigation for fraud, extortion, and abuse of office after his absence, he is still receiving his salary totaling €538,000 (RM2.7 million) over the years where he had stopped turning up to work. After being investigated it was related to six managers at the hospital enabling the man’s absenteeism and the man also threatened his manager when he tried to stop her from lodging a disciplinary report against him.
However, the manager later retired and her successor and human resources failed to notice the man’s ongoing absence and the arrest is part of a larger police investigation into absenteeism and suspected fraud which is rife in the Italian public section. Police have since caught 35 workers at Sanremo’s town hall who spent at least two years cheating the time management system and in a separate case, a traffic policeman has filmed clocking in at work in his underwear before going back to bed.
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