The Industrial Tribunal slammed a former $45,000-a-year insurance sales manager for not being honest with his employers. The employee, Glenn Solomon Ferguson had made an application against alleged wrongful dismissal but the application was rejected on grounds of dishonesty.
“Since the inception of the Tribunal in February, 1997, this case is one of the most glaring examples, if not the most ghlaring example, of an act of connivance and dishonesty against his employer,” said president Harrison Lockhart in his ruling.
Mr. Lockhart went on to say that he would be surprised if Mr. Ferguson was not brought up on criminal charges of fraud.
Canada Life Assurance Company had summarily dismissed Mr. Ferguson for failing to disclose that he was a principal in another firm, Comprehensive Consulting Services, which collected agency fees for services rendered to Canada Life.
At the hearing Mr. Ferguson confessed to having collected $162,544.77 in agency fees between April 2000 and August 2001.
Source: The Tribune
