Spinning plates | Worker used sick leave to hold down second full-time job

A worker was caught working a second full-time job while on sick leave, reports have emerged.

The unnamed employee, who worked for Kensington and Chelsea council, was found to have taken up a position with another housing association while ‘off sick’ from her local authority role.

She was rumbled when colleagues spotted an email from the rival organisation, which contained the woman’s name (albeit slightly altered). It also contained a profile image, which employees were stunned to realise was their ‘sick’ co-worker.

Bosses launched an investigation and found the employee had been working for the other company on the days she was supposedly too ill to work for the council.