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Hyundai workers disciplined for gambling at work
Hyundai Motor said Sunday that it disciplined 97 workers, including 13 former and incumbent senior union officials, for gambling online during work hours.
After completing its latest internal audit, Korea’s largest automaker said 35 employees at its Asan plant and 62 at the Ulsan facility were found to have been engaged in cyberspace gambling using office computers this year.
The company was tipped off by insiders that dozens of employees gambled on the Internet during office hours. All 97 employees admitted to engaging in online gambling, it said. Some of them were found to have bet more than 100 million won ($90,000).
A company official said it was able to catch those gambling online thanks to internal whistle blowers. ``It appears that there were many employees involved in the wrongdoing.’’