Spanish practices

Spanish practices
   regular cheating by employees
   A feature of the old Fleet Street newspaper industry in London, where overmanning, falsification of time sheets, paid absenteeism, and other similar goings-on were endemic:
    A year ago, as well, as overmanning, the exploitative 'Spanish practices' and the interrupted production... ' (Times, January 1987)
   (Eddie Shah, Robert Maxwell, 'Tiny' Rowland, Rupert Murdoch, and Conrad Black did not share the inhibitions of native managers when it came to cleaning out these stables.)

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