A hospital employee in Italy has been accused of skipping work on full pay for 15 years, local media report. He was reportedly paid €538,000 (£464,000) in total over the years he is thought not to have been working. The employee was a civil servant, and was assigned to a job in the hospital in 2005. It was at this point he stopped going into work, the police said. That manager later retired, police added, and his ongoing absence was never noticed by her successor or human resources.