Expense fraud and double-dipping are among the most popular
workplace misbehaviours — and they can both get you
fired
What's old is new again.
Early in my practice, I would tell employers that if they wished
to terminate an employee and avoid severance, they only had to do two
things: check their resumé and other application documents
and review their expenses. More likely than not, I preached, they
would find fraud in one or the other, perhaps in both.
Funnily enough, two surveys in the last month found that many
employees are still cheating in both areas. One, conducted by Maru
Blue, found that in the last year, 31 per cent of Canadian workers
filling out expense reports claimed personal expenses, such as
supplies or lunches, as business expenses and that 24 per cent of
employees admitted to inflating their personal expenses for
reimbursement by their employers. Understand that these results are
self-reported and since most Canadians do not want to
