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Spiteful text causes $190,000 loss…
An employee has been convicted in the District Court of causing loss by deception and has been ordered to pay $19,000 in reparation to his former employer.
The employee had been fired and as he was leaving the premises sent a text to his employer saying “left a little present in the last production”.
The employer was obliged by its contamination procedures to immediately shut down production and a large export shipment was cancelled and the product was destroyed. The employee sent a second text 30 minutes later retracting his first message, but by then it was too late and the company’s losses for the missed shipment and lost production were $190,000.
The employee’s parents have re-mortgaged their house to help him pay the reparation ordered.
Alan Knowsley
Employment Lawyer Wellington
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