The old town hall in the Plaza De la Asuncion Jerez De La Frontera in Spain (Picture: Getty)

These two men have got skiving off work down to a fine art.

A driver and gardener managed to skip shifts for up to 15 years before the council where they worked noticed.

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The two men, from Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain, have been fired after their employer’s human resources department discovered neither of them had turned up for a day at work during 2015 or 2016.

HR then investigated the men and found a whole lot more absences.


The town hall of Jerez de la Frontera said: ‘Two representatives of the General Confederation of Labour union (the CGT) could have gone years without coming to work; according to a written statement by the men themselves this situation could date back 15 years.’

Jerez De La Frontera in southern Spain (Picture: Getty)

The union have defended the men, claiming the absences were simply ‘accumulated days’ and leave of other employees who shared holiday.



During the investigation by human resources, one of the men returned to work. And the other handed in a written statement explaining he had accumulated the hours of his colleagues.

The town hall said that it was ‘insufficient to free him from work for the rest of the year, which was his intention.’

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