Royal Palace of Caserta, fired on the spot six janitors accused of absenteeism

Six employees of the Royal Palace of Caserta have been fired on the spot for suspected absenteeism.For the six workers, the Madia law has been applied, which stipulates that a public administration employee can be fired for such reasons even without waiting for the outcome of the trial, as the previous legislation provided. The investigation into the employees had started in 2016, when some items of little value were stolen from the Palace’s buvette, and it was found that the janitors were not on the job and therefore had not been able to monitor the environments in which the incident occurred. As part of the investigation, the Police, in the fall of 2016, set up some microcameras that detected how the accused employees clocked in and out of the Palace.

“I intend to investigate every profile of what happened at the Royal Palace of Caserta and I will request the acts from the competent ministry,” Public Administration Minister Giulia Bongiorno toldANSA, according to whom “absenteeism must be fought without hesitation.” Also speaking to ANSA, Angelo Donia, an employee of the supervisory area where the six dismissed employees also worked and head of the Uil-Pa syndicate, says that “Uil-Pa does not defend the card-takers, but the workers, who have not only rights but also duties. However, we wonder why the judiciary has noticed this situation, while the administration has not. In the eleven years that I have been working at the Reggia, an attendance check sheet has never come out; while since 2015, since the Reggia became autonomous by detaching itself from the Superintendency, attendance check acts come out from the latter almost every day.”

The director of the Reggia di Caserta, Mauro Felicori, does not comment on the matter: “I do not comment on the measures, which are the responsibility of the Ministry, but I only reiterate what I already said when the affair broke out, namely that ’when a pathology is ascertained and fought against, it is always a positive thing.’”

Photo: the Royal Palace of Caserta. Ph. Credit Antonio Gentile

Royal Palace of Caserta, fired on the spot six janitors accused of absenteeism

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