The Junta de Andalucia is putting tighter controls on Internet access for its staff, in the provincial delegations, in an attempt to get them to do more work… the blighters! Two workers unions are not happy!

The CSI-F and the CCOO have denounced the Junta for worsening working conditions by doing this. It is not enough, they claim, that workers are beset by the Central Government’s labour reforms; the Junta also wants to chip away at workers’ rights.

Two years ago, the Junta limited the amount of material that could be downloaded from the Net on office computers.

The trouble is, the unions complain, that office staff cannot access any Internet web page that does not belong to the Junta. What ever did they do before the age of the Internet, readers might ask themselves.

Although the Junta is pretty much uniform in its restrictions over the provincial delegations, each one applies the new regulations with varying degrees of vigor. In the Granada Delegation for Tourism, for example, access to the Internet is permitted during the first half hour and the last half hour of a working day.

However, the Junta is adamant: if a worker has a justified reason for accessing the Internet as part of their job, then they can, but if a worker has no ‘need’ of the Internet to carry out their allotted task, then there is absolutely no reason for them to use the Internet during office hours.

(News: Granada, Andalucia)