Can city employees be terminated for fraudulent drug claims?
A recent report by City of Toronto Auditor General Beverly Romeo-Beehler revealed millions of dollars paid out for allegedly fraudulent drug claims submitted by City of Toronto employees. In response to the report, Mayor John Tory declared: “I would suggest that termination (is) an appropriate kind of penalty for that sort of thing because we cannot, in a circumstance where we’re trustees of the public’s money, allow it to (be) abused whether it’s for Viagra or any other drug or any other purpose whatsoever.”
