COPENHAGEN, AP – A mass of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after Carsberg, a Danish brewer, tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking. According to a Carlsberg spokesman, beer coolers were also removed from work sites.

This obviouslly has not settled well for warehouse and production workers in Denmark who are now rebelling against the company’s new alcohol policy. It allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Prior to this, workers could help themselves to Carlsberg beer throughout the day from coolers placed around the work sites.

The only restriction accoding to company spokesman Jens Bekke was..

“that you could not be drunk at work. It was up to each and everyone to be responsible,”

Carlsberg had mulled a stricter drinking policy for years and finally decided to impose the new rules on April 1, 2010 which has prompted all the protests.

Bekke said around 800 workers went on strike Wednesday and around 250 walked off their jobs Thursday, resulting in interruptions to beer transports in and around Copenhagen.

Carlsberg’s truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy even though they are exempt from the new rules, Bekke said. The truck drivers are permitted to bring three beers from the canteen because they often don’t have time to have lunch there.

As a saftey precaution, the trucks are fitted with alcohol ignition locks which prevent the drivers from driving drunk.

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