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.