What are the consequences of an employee stealing from a grocery store?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from DeBay v. Sobeys Group Inc., 2010 NSLST 5 (CanLII):
97. The Respondent also referred to CAW Local 414 v. Sav-A-Centre, 2006 CanLII 36351 (ON LA), 2006 CanLII 36351 (ON L.A.), at page 6, As noted, the cases on theft from grocery stores are legion and, for the most part, termination is upheld even when the theft is trivial in dollar terms. The vast majority of the cases focus on the principle of general deterrence and the need for store managers in a largely unsupervised situation to be able to trust their employees. And a penalty of termination has been upheld in many cases of long service – up to 30 years, and with a clean record. ...
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