SALESGIRL’S CLAIM
ACTION AGAINST FIRM WRONGFUL DISMISSAL CONFESSION TO AUDITORS v Per Association) Ucliufgton, August 12. Judgment tor the plaintiff was given by Mr T. D. McNeil, &.M., in the Mugitsratc’s Court in a claim for a week’s wages; iu lieu of notice, for alleged wrongful dismissal, brought by Thelma, Adams saleswoman against J. R. McKenzie, Ltd. Miss Admit; was dismissed, by the firm last Maicih as a result of the activities of a air Myer, tlie representative of an Australian firm of “internal auditors” and tifaff investigators who liad been! engaged by McKenzie’s to report on the mem. berg of tlirir variou s staffs. When the court resumed to-day, raid btrfore calling hi; evidence, counsel for defendant said that 'there were a number of acts which showed that the plaintiff's case should fail. There was the admitcion of guilt, the fact that slto was an adult woman and cue who could stand up in film witness-box without distress, and tlie facts that sire made no complaint about rough treatment until a mouth later, that she bad had an opportunity to destroy tlie confession, that the expressed regret afterwards, that the story of alleged brutal treatment was unlikely o. n the taco of it. and that she had admitted that s he had “frittered the money away.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 13 August 1932, Page 6
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