(ANSA) - Rome, March 23 - Some 324 civil service workers
were fired in 2017, almost half of them for absenteeism, the
civil service ministry said Friday.
The ministry said 154 sackings, or 48%, had been for
persistently missing work.
Some 55 clock-in cheats were fired.
Overall, firings were 5.8% down on 2016, while there was
sharp rise in those who were fired for clocking in and then
going about their business, 24 cases in all.
2017 was the year that outgoing Civil Service Minister
Marianna Madia's new rules on sacking if caught red-handed came
into force.