Stealing sweets warrants firing,
Italy's top court said Thursday in the case of a supermarket
worker who got the sack after stealing candies worth less than
10 euros. The shelf stacker was found at the end of his shift in
possession of sweets he had not paid for, when the
anti-shop-lifting alarm went off. The Cassation Court said this
"fraudulent" behaviour was an irreversible breach of
employer-employee trust. Upholding a Naples appeals court
ruling, the supreme court said it did not believe the worker's
contention he had been framed by the head of security. It ruled
that the sacking was "proportional to the severity of the
offence".
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