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Financial Post: 20 July 2005 All Rights Reserved.

Pepsi-Cola employees had to follow one unshakeable rule: No consumer must ever see a stale-dated product on any store shelf.

Donald Chester, a 20-year route sales representative, delivered Hostess Frito Lay products (owned by Pepsi) to retail outlets. Pepsi expected Chester to ensure its products were removed from stores before their best-before dates expired. Most of the time Chester honored Pepsi’s “golden” rule. Occasionally, he slipped up. Continue reading “Make Sure Employees Can Meet Set Standard: Court Crunches Numbers on Bags of Chips”

Financial Post: 13 July 2005 All Rights Reserved.

How do you win in court? A common adage is that winning or losing a trial is a function, in roughly equal proportions, of the strength of each side’s case, the skill of counsel and the judge you happen to draw. Continue reading “How to Win an Employment Suit: Strategies for Employees and Employers”

Financial Post: 6 July 2005 All Rights Reserved.

Employees in high-pressure jobs often jump before they are pushed and claim constructive dismissal, fearing that they will be otherwise fired.

Laara Sinclaire knew that her position, touting time-share condos in Whistler, B.C., was only as secure as her latest results. Continue reading “Discipline Is Not the Same Thing as Firing”

In the last several months, the courts handed out two cases of significant importance to fraud investigators. Continue reading “Is Dishonesty Still Grounds for Termination?”