Would You Fire Someone for Taking Garbage?

An Iowa convenience store employee took no-longer-saleable soup from the dumpster to feed to her dog–and was fired. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a decision to deny unemployment benefits to a convenience store employee who was fired for taking soup from the dumpster. The company, an Iowa-based chain of franchises called Casey’s General Stores, has a policy that employees cannot remove any company property from the stores without paying for it—including out-of-date, no-longer-saleable items such as doughnuts and soup

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Would You Fire Someone for Taking Garbage?