Town hall workers sacked after not turning up to work for 15 years

A PAIR of workers have been fired from a town hall after it was discovered they had been skiving off work for 15 years. park-bench-771653_960_720

The driver and the gardener at Jerez town hall didn’t however fail to pick up their paychecks during that time.

Despite being fired, the CGT trade union argued that they were simply taking off their own ‘accumulated days’ as well as those of other employees, as they can be shared.

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Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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