Alan S. Noonan was fired from his job as a salesman at Staples, Inc for allegedly padding expense reports. A Staples executive then sent a mass e-mail to about 1,500 employees informing them that Noonan had been fired for violating the company's travel
and expense policy. Staples also denied Noonan his severance benefits and refused to allow him to exercise his stock options, claiming that, under the terms of the agreements setting forth the right to these benefits, Noonan was ineligible because he had been fired "for cause.". Discuss the ethical issues of both the employer and the employee.
Padding expense accounts is taking what does not belong to you and may well be a criminal offense as well. However, the mass e-mail does violate the employee's privacy inasmuch as there has not been a full airing of the charges. Two wrongs do not make a right. The employer has violated the employee's privacy, regardless of whether he padded his expense account.
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