They paid the notice but still lost the case, here's the word that sank them
A financial firm that fired a worker for "dishonest" medical-claim misuse lost before Tribunal Magistrate Jared Kang Chern Wey on 15 May 2026.
The case, JGP v JGQ, grew out of a group-wide review the employer began in December 2023 after a clinic, anonymised as Clinic X, generated a high volume of reimbursement claims for items that looked more like retail than medicine. Around 40 employees were dismissed. Eight took their employers to the tribunal, and six of those cases, all turning on the same reasoning, were heard together.
The claimant, referred to as Ms C, joined in September 2021 on a contract with three months' notice. Between March and September 2023 she submitted 62 claims totalling $9,989.64 for purchases that, she accepted, included vitamins, supplements, skincare, chicken essence and an electric toothbrush, none prescribed by a doctor she had never consulted at the clinic. She said colleagues and clinic staff had told her claims below a $200 threshold did not need itemising and could be submitted, and she offered to repay once told they were not in order.
A three-member disciplinary committee first recommended a warning and a full bonus cut, citing her junior position, clean record and what it called her "simple-minded" reliance on what she had been told. The employer's Global Head of HR queried that leniency against a dishonesty finding and asked the committee to reconsider. It...
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