by Maggie Kong, Shane Lou, Susan Shan, Kent Xu, Grace Yang,
Anderson Zhang and John Zhou
Our labor law team recently dealt with several cases concerning
employers dismissing their employees due to false expense claims.
Such cases occur universally, in which the employees involved can
be categorized as follows:
- Senior Executives
Senior executives are dismissed mainly for two reasons in the
application for expense claims:
- changing relevant personnel or practicing office politics
It is usually an efficient, faster and easier strategy to change
senior executives without making it public by studying their
expense claims. Ordinarily, everyone gets along quite well.
However, once the head office or the parent company, shareholders,
or the board of directors intend to change senior executives, the
financial department including the internal audit department of the
company, will audit every invoice submitted by those senior
executives. Once the senior
