Man Skips Work Unnoticed for more than a Decade

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MADRID — A public servant has been handed a nine-year ban from public posts after it emerged he had been absent from his $75,000-a-year job for more than a decade.

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Every morning, Carles Recio, an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would turn up at his office, clock in and head out again, before coming back at 4 p.m. to clock out. It was a routine he managed to maintain for 10 years until last summer, when, after colleagues began to raise suspicions, he was fired. A tribunal in Valencia has now delivered the nine-year suspension over what it said was a “flagrant neglect of the essential duties inherent to the work post.”

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