No proper cause to terminate for time theft

The grievor’s kept a mental record of unpaid overtime they had worked and decided to use in on a Friday afternoon. The loose approach the company took to record-keeping, despite the sophisticated systems it required employees to use, meant that it could not hold them to a strict standard.

Two workers were fired after a review of time logs showed that they had billed for time that they were not in the plant.

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