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Virgin Blue workers fight back

by on10 June 2010

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Airline blessed porn for years


A group
of Virgin Blue workers who were sacked for running a P2P porn network on the Airline's computers are fighting back against their dismissal.

The group claimed that there had been a culture of sharing porn at the offices and staff rooms of Virgin Blue for years. Rather than clamping down on the process, airline management openly condoned it.  Some of them were even distributing porn themselves. More than five of the more than 25 Virgin Blue workers, sacked as part of a company-wide crackdown on pornography, are set to challenge the terminations in court as unfair dismissals.

They claim that while running porn networks on the company computer system was officially against the rules at Virgin, the behaviour has been "a custom and practice of the workplace for a number of years and has been condoned by management throughout this time".

"Virgin was sold to us as a good times employer and a sexy place to work - it's part of the culture," said the staff member, who asked not to be named.

Virgin is undertaking a company-wide investigation into pornography use, with everyone from engineers to cabin crew having their computers scanned by high-tech computer programs that check email inboxes for skin-toned images.
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