04 October 2007
In brief
Three council workers have lost their jobs for spending too long on eBay while at work. The three Neath Port Talbot council workers were spending up to two hours a day on the internet auction site. One employee was sacked and two others quit after an investigation into the “unacceptable level of usage” by some workers of the internet for personal purposes. Unison—which represents the workers—claims that the council, by failing to put a block on access to non-work sites, had put temptation in the workers’ way. Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons, says the case should act as a spur to employers to check their internet use policies.
