Lain Jager described the employee's five-year prison sentence as an "outside event.”
Jamie Ball Fri, 24 Apr 2015
Zespri sacked a jailed employee for being involved in smuggling even though his employer, Zespri's China subsidiary, was itself convicted of the under-declaration of customs duties in China between 2008 and 2010 over the same events.
Zespri's stated rationale for dismissing employee Joseph Yu was