Ontario Liquor store employees in the news
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) fired ten employees in the last year for swiping Air Miles on purchases made by customers without the reward cards, after receiving access to the private card information of Air Miles transactions at their stores.
Since August 2006, an agreement with LoyaltyOne Inc., the company that runs the Air Miles program, has allowed LCBO auditors access to that information.
An internal audit in late 2008, obtained by The Canadian Press under the province’s freedom-of-information legislation, stated that due to the poor economy at present, “many retailers are expecting an increase in the amount of inappropriate behaviour by front line staff.”
The same internal report revised its guidelines on employees accepting gifts from the companies that supply their stores with liquor, beer and wine. While only a third of these gifts were tickets to hockey games and concerts, many of the gifts were meals under $50 which are still allowed.
By coincidence, the union for the LCBO staff are taking a strike vote this week after their contract expired in March.
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