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May 12, 10:18am
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As a Store Manager who worked my way up from the shop floor during my college years, I have had to deal cases of with theft and fraud within my team. Such behaviour is obviously unacceptable, and usually quite rightly leads to dismissal as it is gross misconduct. However, I find the idea outlined below very misguided and really quite appalling:
"Retail employees suspected of theft, fraud or damage could soon find their details listed on a national register, available to every retail company in the UK. The database will allow retailers to search for an individual by surname, forename, date of birth, NI number, address and previous employer. It will even include photographs of individuals."
Although I am completely against any form of dishonesty in business, I find this database development absurd, to put it mildly. Why? Well, please note that theft, fraud, etc does not have to PROVEN for the supposed offender to be added to this list which is then available to every retailer in the UK. The simple fact opf the matter is that this is wide open to abuse by unscrupulous managers and companies who are somewhat dubious in the way they deal with their employees. Anyone who doesn't think that this happens needs to wake up - this industry, unfortunately, has as many deceitful managers as it has deceitful sales people! What about the data protection act, not to mention good HR practice and confidentiality?
Theft and fraud are terrible and should not be tolerated... but this is NOT the way to deal with it. The launch of this website will mean that even if an employee has not been proven to be gulity, their details will be available to all and sundry within the industry, so they may never work again despite having done nothing wrong. There must be better ways to ensure that our teams are working in an honest an open fashion.
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